. 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 . he little green grasshopperskeeping up their fiddling, while on a stalk of tall grass; eachscene urging us on in the search. Even though there is alingering memory of the mosquito pests, which annoyed meduring the katydid excursions, I look back with pleasure tothe acquaintances made by lamp-light at the fence row. The Short-winged Green Locust The landscape illustration on page 394 is that of a viewnear Miller
. 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 . he little green grasshopperskeeping up their fiddling, while on a stalk of tall grass; eachscene urging us on in the search. Even though there is alingering memory of the mosquito pests, which annoyed meduring the katydid excursions, I look back with pleasure tothe acquaintances made by lamp-light at the fence row. The Short-winged Green Locust The landscape illustration on page 394 is that of a viewnear Miller, Indiana. It shows, in the wet grassy foreground,the typical habitat of the short-winged green locust, Dichro-morpha viridus. The three individuals of this species, whichare represented in the plate photographic illustration, werefound here September twenty-first. This locust usually takeson the bright green color of the herbage among which it shows very little activity when approached. It either triesto hide in the grass, or perhaps jumps away to avoid its wings have become atrophied, and they are short and not ECOLOGY — INTERPRETATION OF ENVIRONMENT 393. The Shnrt-iringed Green Locust (DicliromorpJia rinJii-f). Upperfigure, male; middle and lower figures, females. Thehabitat of this insect is shown in the land-scape view on the next page. 394 NATURE SKETCHES IN TEMPERATE AMERICA used in flight. The long-winged forms of this species areseldom found. I have found the short-winged green locust on variousoccasions at the point above mentioned, and in September andOctober it was mating. At this time also, in the fall, it wasaccompanied by several species of the green grasshoppersof the genus Xiphidium. As will be seen in the plate illustra-tion bearing three figures of this insect, there is a great dis-crepancy between the size of the male and the female. The
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