"Measuring worm" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... changes, no more desirable than the foregoing, which have been caused by the introduction of the house-sparrow. The only positive benefit which occurs to me is that the measuring worm, which formerly infested all our vegetation, is now very nearly extinct through the instrumentality of the sparrows. A pair of these, during the breeding-season, ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882 • Various |
