Excerpt from Monthly Bulletin of the Department of Health of the City of New York, Vol. 4: January, 1914A Single female ¿y lays from one hundred to one hundred and fifty eggs at a time. During her lifetime, she may lay five or Six batches of eggs. We shall not weary the reader with the long arithmetical calculation involved. Suffice to say, how ever, that a single ¿y in April may have literally millions Of off-spring by September.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.