... NATURE NOTE Did you know that the silkworm spins a thread of silk in much the same way as a spider spins its web? 3 It's true — the silkworm lives on mulberry leaves and when fully grown it spins a silk cocoon around itself from a single, paleyellow strand ...

... Nature Note You can discover a whole world of plants and animals in ponds and if you are lucky enough to live in the country there may be a pond near your home. Take a jam jar and put it into the water and you may find lots of little -creatures such-as ...

... NATURE NOTE remove a reluctant caterpillar from plants and trees — because it is clinging on with dozens of false legs. & * * For this week’s competition | would like you to find as many words as you can from the word CATERPILLAR. ...

... Nature note Sir.—l noticed that in your paper about a year ago you had an interesting article about a cyclist who had the rare privilege of seeing a badger near Pickworth. On Sunday. as I was motor- 1 ,ing back from Leicester with my wife. we were entertained ...

... NATURE NOTE A frlend on a trout-fishing holiday in Devon sends me a delightful nature note. ~ The {rout were not feeding, so the angler was sitting on a rock contemplating the river with his rod piopped against a high bank with its tlp projecting over ...

... NATURE NOTE . .. Here's an interesting nature note for you to read and inwardly digest. All spiders’ webs are made of a silk liquid that hardens when it comes into contact with air. ‘The liiq'didi comes from six “‘spinnerets’” at the back of the spider ...

... NATURE NOTE Have you ever stopped to take a close look at the wings of a butterfly? If you did, you'd discover that the¥ are made of masses of dust-like scales. Both sides are covered with these colourful tiles, which overlap like slates on a roof. It ...

... Nature Note MR. A. ROEBUCK Mr. R. K. 'Cornwallis, the president of the Lincolnshire Naturalists Union recently spoke to the members of the Union. the former stressing that they existed mainly to give pleasure to mankind. fostering the enjoyment of the ...

... A Nature Note T HAVE RECEIVED an Interest-5 ing note from a Boston lady. who, by some strange ways and means in these meatless times, finds a little fat to hang out for the several pairs of blue-tits and great-tits that find her little orchard a natural ...

... reader, how confusme when she was a school- .ingl girl. I thuik • Youwill be In-7 Rich brown its coat, terested in this nature note beneath. in rhyme. Its hooves ate black and There are so mny kinds of hardy; deer, Such hea out w e =tient spread That I ...

... dirtv linen it should be w ashed it was remarked Grimsby. Then one has a clean sheet. The hedgerows begin shoot, says a nature note. wondered what that noise was | Don't destroy paper bags but hand them to grocer ' Our grocer wears' flannel ones though ...

... Sm— —— | I DRI k. viackeadonna i | PITREE. ccoivspersies sessas | : Date of 8irth..ccc Bl e aitis: g is e Nature note on Daddy-long-legs Like all true insects, daddg-long-legs have just one pair of wings for flight. But if you can bear to ...