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... NATURE NOTE Liie iouse Cricket This merry little chirruper makes its home in defective brick- Wwork around our Kitchen firep.aces and is a common household insect all over the world. Qccasionally it may be heard out of doors in summer when it is migrating ...

... NATURE NOTE THE HARVESTMEN 'lIlE HARVESTMEN are on the . move again, running through the grasses with their small globular bodies held high on long thin stalks of legs. At jirst-glance one may take them to be some wingless form of Daddy-long-legs, or ...

... NATURE NOTE: MOTH NEW TO The weather has been so wet all along, we have done verny little field work., and conscquently our ccllection of insecis this® Summer falls much short of those of previous vears. But on the night of the 29th March last we captured ...

... NATURE NOTE The Common Snail The commoen snail, helix aspersa, is found almost everywhere. There is a considerable variation in form and coleur cf the glohose shell, but typically its shagceen surface is fawn coloured with the five whorls tanded and sprinkled ...

... NATURE NOTE NOXIOUS WEED ()F the noxious weeds Mot people seem to have @ tolerant regard for Grounds Why thiz shculd be it s ! guess, but perhaps it is -, = its use as apn impor! b days gone by, and ils I ndly association with us to-day as = good rabbit ...

... NATURE NOTE. JUNE All around, the hedges are jewelled with wild roses, and where brambles begin to break their soft satin buds the scent of honeysuckle is sweet on the wind. Along the streamside tormentil makes a cross of gold, loosestrife builds beautiful ...

... NATURE NOTE WEATHER LORE AT this time of the year we instinctively turn our thoughts to summer, and a general salutation between friends is “What de you think of the weather?” Some people have the happy knack of being abie to forecast a day or two beforehand ...

... NATURE NOTE. THE HERRING ‘YAST shcals of Sea Herring are bere, Following incalculable nurders of tiny lobster-like crustaceans, the calni, on which they feed, they have arrived at the spiwning grounds off our coast. Boon each adult female will deposi ...

... NATURE NOTE Twinkle, Twinkic Little Star Chickweed is an all-rounc-! year plant. It grows almost «it where: in gardens, on wasto (I and by the roadsides. M f are familiar with its strag:2 freely-branched, weak st with the peculiar hairy ning up one side ...

... NATURE NOTE eot WS e / SALMON NAMES | A To the uninitiated salmon namgs can be very bewildering. At least/a dozen are in everyday use, and if one takes localisms into account the nu% Iber must run well over twenty. begin with salmon fry: Born in the rivers ...

... NATURE NOTE. DAISY CHAINS Yesterday, the cuuaicu wee lnuuuun,»uuug Gl lladdsciiw Daisres. ‘1 wo were ianiug Coaus, Sringing the nowc:s on pacucs U knotted grass; anowner wus uiting them on bits of light wir and turning out excellent iitations ot feat ...