. 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 . irst two or three times they are disturbed,but if flushed a number of times they use their wings in endeavor-ing to escape. The clouded locust was a common frequenter in the latesummer within the weeded area of the old strawberry patch,shown in the foreground of the landscape view depicting theback of our grounds. One can hardly fail to identify thisspecies from the plate photographic illustration containingthr
. 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 . irst two or three times they are disturbed,but if flushed a number of times they use their wings in endeavor-ing to escape. The clouded locust was a common frequenter in the latesummer within the weeded area of the old strawberry patch,shown in the foreground of the landscape view depicting theback of our grounds. One can hardly fail to identify thisspecies from the plate photographic illustration containingthree figures. The upper and lower individuals are females;the middle figure is that of the male. The clouded locust bears the scientific name, Encoptoloplussordidus. It ranges over the United States and Canada,east of the Great Plains. I have specimens from Kenilworth,Downers Grove, and Chicago, Illinois; from Oconomowoc,Wisconsin, and from Dune Park and Miller, Indiana. Thefigures on the plate are from Lakeside, Michigan, and werephotographed from living individuals which were posed forthe purpose, while in an anaesthetized condition. ECOLOGY — INTERPRETATION OF ENVIRONMENT 375. ;> The Drink OF THE Grasshoppers ^T evening, after thelowering of the sun,the gathering dewforms in little spheres ofcrystalline pnreness at theextreme lips of I he obser\c this beautifulphenomenon, which is com-mon in July, one has but to seek a field where grass, wheat,or rye is growing. Then, getting near to the ground andlooking upward toward the west, so that the afterglow of theevening sky will light the tiny water spheres, they are hereseen to best advantage. The illustration figures the dew as I witnessed it on Julytwelfth, at As shown in the drawing it often fur-nishes drink for insects, especially grasshoppers. The dew isproduced by the lowering temperature of the grass bladesbelow that of the dew point in the surrounding air, causing acondensation of moisture on the g
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