Four feet, wings, and fins . ile thewhole air was black with more coming in the dis-tance, I think they would shudder with me. Itmeant death by starvation, unless some outside aidreached us. I thought it was the grasshopper that was sotroublesome out west ? said Frank. Locusts and grasshoppers are so much alike thatfew but naturalists know the difference. They bothbelong to the same order — Orthoptera from Orthos,straight, and pteron, wing: Orthoptera, straight-winged. Both have the same general shape, bothtake long leaps. The difference in looks seemsmainly in the antenna. The antenncB of the
Four feet, wings, and fins . ile thewhole air was black with more coming in the dis-tance, I think they would shudder with me. Itmeant death by starvation, unless some outside aidreached us. I thought it was the grasshopper that was sotroublesome out west ? said Frank. Locusts and grasshoppers are so much alike thatfew but naturalists know the difference. They bothbelong to the same order — Orthoptera from Orthos,straight, and pteron, wing: Orthoptera, straight-winged. Both have the same general shape, bothtake long leaps. The difference in looks seemsmainly in the antenna. The antenncB of the locust areshort, and project in front, while those of the grass-hopper are long and folded back, reaching even 394 PAT AND THE WASPS. beyond their long hind legs. Both locusts andgrasshoppers deposit their eggs in the ground —These eggs remain until spring, when they arehatched; the little locusts and grasshoppers being atfirst no larger than gnats. However, the grass-hopper attains its whole growth in one season, while. the locusts are three years in arriving at do not undergo the change so common tomost of the insect tribe, but come forth perfect littlelocusts and grasshoppers, excepting wings. Theykeep continually changing their skins as they grow 395 PAT AND THE WASPS. larger, at the same time their wings becoming moreand more prominent. They are very greedy, and assoon as they have consumed all that is green aroundthem, fly away in search of more food, leaving black-ness and desolation behind them. The ugly baste! but Ill fix him as soon as Igets home, to be sure. Ill stack a pin clare throughhis body and that 11 be the last of him, mum! If anything must be destroyed, do it as quicklyas you can, said Grace, and without torture. Sure, mum, and didnt I see lots of butterfliesand beetles-and theloikes at the centennial, an iveryblissed one of em with pins stickin through , mum, I did. Those were all quickly killed with a drop ofchloroform applied to
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