Small Insects | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 4, 1879

Small Insects.

Lewenhoeck tells of an insect seen with a microscope, of which 27,000,000 would only equal a mite. Insects of various kinds may be seen in the cavities of a common grain of sand. Mold is a forest of beautiful trees, with the branches, leaves, flowers and fruit. Butterflies are fully feathered. Hairs are hollow tubes. The surface of our bodies is covered with scales like fish; a single grain of sand would cover one hundred and fifty of these scales, and yet a single scale covers five hundred pores. Through these narrow openings the sweat forces itself out like water through a sieve. The mites make five hundred steps a second. Each drop of stagnant water contains a world of animated beings, swimming with as much liberty as a whale in the sea. Each leaf has a colony of insects grazing on it, like oxen in a meadow.