Crossword-Solution: TIPULA 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Grasshoppers and other _Orthoptera_ were rare, as were _Hemiptera_; _Tipula_ was the common dipterous insect, with a small sand-fly: there were neither leeches, mosquitos, ticks, nor midges.

Where song birds are scarce the Tipula is capable of utterly destroying grass and of seriously ravaging the Kitchen Garden; but cultivation, aided by the robins, thrushes, nightingales, and other birds, will keep the insect within bounds, even after a hot summer favourable to its increase.

Tipula Larva.] For reasons which we will not pause here to discuss, we have always regarded the eruciform type of larva as the highest.

Diabrotica vittata.] Among the flies, mosquitoes now appear, though they have not yet, perhaps, strayed far from their native swamps and fens; and their mammoth allies, the Daddy-long-legs (Tipula), rise from the fields and mould of our gardens in great numbers.

Among insects, some (_e.g._ grasshopper, cricket, ant, etc.) produce young in the ordinary way, by the union of the sexes; in other cases (_e.g._ flies and fleas) this union of the sexes results in the production of a _skolex_; while others have no parents, nor do they have congress--such are the ephemera, tipula, and the like.