. Farm friends and farm foes : a text-book of agricultural science . Agricultural pests; Beneficial insects; Insect pests. 68 FARM FRIENDS AND FARM FOES. Common CkicKET Female The Red-legged Locust is one of the commonest members of this family. Its eggs are laid in the ground early in autumn and remain there through the winter. The next sum- mer they hatch into small grasshoppers that resemble the adult in general ap- pearance, but of course are much smaller and have no wings. They molt or cast their skins several times during the next six weeks, and then they become full grown with well- dev
. Farm friends and farm foes : a text-book of agricultural science . Agricultural pests; Beneficial insects; Insect pests. 68 FARM FRIENDS AND FARM FOES. Common CkicKET Female The Red-legged Locust is one of the commonest members of this family. Its eggs are laid in the ground early in autumn and remain there through the winter. The next sum- mer they hatch into small grasshoppers that resemble the adult in general ap- pearance, but of course are much smaller and have no wings. They molt or cast their skins several times during the next six weeks, and then they become full grown with well- developed wings. The famous Rocky Mountain Locust is very similar to the Red-legged spe- cies. Fortunately it is unable to de- velop continuously except at high al- titudes, such as the plateaus of the Rocky Mountains. Here it used to become so abundant that it was forced to migrate for food. At such times, enor- mous numbers of the grass- hoppers flew toward the Mis- sissippi Valley, where they fed upon all kinds of grasses and grains and many other plants. As they came sud- denly in enormous swarms, it was impossible to fight them successfully, and they often did great damage. There are many other spe- cies of grasshoppers belong- ing to this family, which are common and widely distrib-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Weed, Clarence Moores, 1864-1947. Boston ; New York : D. C. Heath & Co.
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