Excerpt from Papilio, 1881, Vol. 1: The Organ of the New York Entomological Club The study of insects assumes an importance in this country far greater than in any other part of the world. Nowhere else does mother earth yield in such variety and in such abundance her agricultural products; after supplying to repletion our own people, the excess is distributed to every quarter of the globe. Few, surprisingly few, of these varied products are native to our soil. Nearly all of our fruits, grasses, cereals and vegetables, and ...
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Excerpt from Papilio, 1881, Vol. 1: The Organ of the New York Entomological Club The study of insects assumes an importance in this country far greater than in any other part of the world. Nowhere else does mother earth yield in such variety and in such abundance her agricultural products; after supplying to repletion our own people, the excess is distributed to every quarter of the globe. Few, surprisingly few, of these varied products are native to our soil. Nearly all of our fruits, grasses, cereals and vegetables, and perhaps three-fourths of our weeds are of foreign importation mainly from Europe. With their introduction, very many of the insects that preyed upon them were also introduced, or have been subsequently brought hither. But unfortunately for us, the para sites which preyed upon them and kept them under control, have, for the most part, been left behind. As the result, the imported pests, in their new home, find their favorite food-plants spread out in luxuriant growth over broad acres, where they may ply their destructive work without hinderance or molestation, until some native parasites acquire the habit of preying upon them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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