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Terrible Attack by a Larva of the Puss-Moth at Covent Garden.”
Terrible Attack by a Larva of the Puss-Moth at Covent Garden.”
"The Strand Magazine ran an alarming feature in 1910: “If Insects Were Bigger.” The editors inserted photographs of ordinary English insects into contemporary Edwardian street scenes, with pretty terrifying results. “What a terrible calamity, what a stupefying circumstance, if mosquitoes were the size of camels, and a herd of wild slugs the size of elephants invaded our gardens and had to be shot with rifles!”"
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