. Nature sketches in temperate America, a series of sketches and a popular account of insects, birds, and plants, treated from some aspects of their evolution and ecological relations . I have found verydark brown, or even black varieties, arid females have beentaken which were sprinkled with minute dark brown spotson a lighter ground. I found these colors so perfectly simulatedthe background that it was always very difficult to locatethese insects. The landscape view presented in the photographic illustra-tion is a typical habitat of this species. It was taken May 26,. Landscape vieio in the
. Nature sketches in temperate America, a series of sketches and a popular account of insects, birds, and plants, treated from some aspects of their evolution and ecological relations . I have found verydark brown, or even black varieties, arid females have beentaken which were sprinkled with minute dark brown spotson a lighter ground. I found these colors so perfectly simulatedthe background that it was always very difficult to locatethese insects. The landscape view presented in the photographic illustra-tion is a typical habitat of this species. It was taken May 26,. Landscape vieio in the dune region shomng typical habitat of the quaker locust, Arphia sulphured. Among the cactus and blossoming lupine it was well protected on the leafy ground. 1908, at Miller, Indiana, solely with the view to showingthe natural environment of this locust. In the foreground,where I flushed these insects, may be seen blossoming lupineLupinus perennis, cactus Opuntia humifusa, and moss. Hereare also shown some young willows, and scattered about onthe ground are leaves and debris, among which the locustscould easilv secrete themselves. ECOLOGY —INTERPRETATION OF ENVIRONMENT 399 The Pasture Locust The landscape herewith shown of an open sweep of pastureis notable as being a typical habitat of one of our small incon-spicuous locusts. In the short green grass of the foregroundI found the pasture locust, Orphuella speciosa, quite the first few days of August, 1905, these locusts were nearlyall mature, but an occasional retarded nymph, or young, likethe one I h
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