. The insect book [microform] : a popular account of the bees, wasps, ants, grasshoppers, flies and other North American insects exclusive of the butterflies, moths and beetles, with full life histories, tables and bibliographies. Insectes; Insects. tinns. Thf house criLkt-t, or hcirth critkct, Gryllin Jomeslitus, of Huropc, IS not tDiiimon on this continent except in Canadu, but two or three species of lield crickets are occasionally loiind in houses in this country. The common black cricket, found in. ^ .(!, J )0 âAnalirus simpltx. (AjUr Kiln I Rrassy pasture lands or fields, lives in burrow
. The insect book [microform] : a popular account of the bees, wasps, ants, grasshoppers, flies and other North American insects exclusive of the butterflies, moths and beetles, with full life histories, tables and bibliographies. Insectes; Insects. tinns. Thf house criLkt-t, or hcirth critkct, Gryllin Jomeslitus, of Huropc, IS not tDiiimon on this continent except in Canadu, but two or three species of lield crickets are occasionally loiind in houses in this country. The common black cricket, found in. ^ .(!, J )0 âAnalirus simpltx. (AjUr Kiln I Rrassy pasture lands or fields, lives in burrows under the «round, issues sometimes in the day, but more usually at night to feed, and tal";s blades of grass back into its burrow. The eggs are laid in the autumn, usually in the ground, and are hatched the tollowmg summer. The mole crickets live alwavs under the ground .ind teed upon the tender roots of forage plants, while the tree crickets are. as their name suggests, arboreal in their habits. The crickets are the most musical of .ill insects. Even the mole criiket consoles himself by fiddling, and warms the heart of his mate by a tune which is not cheerful enough for a household ditty, but, to our ears, uneducated in the orthop- teran musical culture, sounds more like .1 lament of his sad subterranean It has been reduced to scale by Scudder as follows : fr. â¢* '^â¢^â¢^^^ 1*1^ ^^^â ^â ^t KTfl^ trrO^ grn grn itrn grfl yrfl jrrO grn Hg. Jji.âSong of mule criikt't. /After ) The house cricket, or the cricket of the hearth, plays a more cheerful tup.', or, at all events, it is supposed to mean comfort and a warm fireside anJ a steaming kettle. It is thus not the music but the association of ideas which produces the pleasing effect. Cowper expressed it perfectly \Ahen he wrote : " Sounds inharmonious in themselves .nnd harsh, Yet, I eard in scenes where peace forever reigns, And rily there, highly for their sak
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