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... 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 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& A BLACK LILY. bleak lily* new to science has been tun covered by Americans at Nueva Caceres, Southern I ,uzon, is the Philippines. An odour of tainted flesh, and many bluebottle-flies led them to find it under dense vegetation. The plant ...

... NATURE NOTE. A ht ti, apple-tree bloomed in the hedgerow at Barna. Polly and I ran toward. It on Sunday evening. an I tor a iiiime•nt halted. brrathlng the narprise 01 sweetnes. Then c was siin.et behind the him twin., not.'• from • VI Hut Polly began ...

... 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 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 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. 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. 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§. WATER FOWL RAWER. Daring the pert bow days, say. Feathered Life, many broods of young wild duck have been successfully hatched out by the mallard inhabiting the Serpentine and the Round Pond, Kensinirton Gardens. It is an interesting fact ...

... 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 ...