. 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 . nkeeping down excessive numbers of these insects. Harris says that the rose-bugs come forth from the groundduring the second week in June (Massachusetts), or about 220 NATURE SKETCHES IN TEMPERATE AMERICA the time of the blossoming of the damask rose, and remain fromthirty to forty days. At the end of this period the males becomeexhausted, fall to the ground and perish, while the females enterthe earth, lay the
. 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 . nkeeping down excessive numbers of these insects. Harris says that the rose-bugs come forth from the groundduring the second week in June (Massachusetts), or about 220 NATURE SKETCHES IN TEMPERATE AMERICA the time of the blossoming of the damask rose, and remain fromthirty to forty days. At the end of this period the males becomeexhausted, fall to the ground and perish, while the females enterthe earth, lay their eggs, return to the surface, and, afterlingering a few days, also die. Harris further wrote that theeggs laid by each female are about thirty in number, and aredeposited from one to four inches beneath the surface of thesoil and hatched twenty days after they are laid. Shouldthe reader care to learn more detailed facts of the habits ofthese interesting insects, he is referred to Insects Injuriousto Vegetation, by the classical writer above cited. The rose-bug, or rose-chafer, is known to the natjiralist by the name,Macrodactylus subspinosus. ANIMAL BEHAVIOR, WITH EXAMPLES gJl. day!noonarose,west An August Hailstorm, withITS Sequence HAT can be moreimpressive than asudden storm in theheat of an AugustOne after-as a stormthe south-wind blewwith terrific forcethrough the near-by groves andorchards; andbefore long thewind storm wasfollowed by moment thelarge drops ofwater came fasterand faster, hereand there accom-panied by littlefrozen messengers fromthe sky, the first warning ofdanger that was in store for ourfield and forest neighbors. The hail, having now taken theplace of rain, fell rapidly and the earth was treated to aprolonged roll-call. The icy masses, which were often halfthe size of hens eggs, bounded from the ground; with the hailalso descended many leaves which had been torn from thebranches of the trees. Standing under the trees, one could watch the lull
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