Marvels of insect life ; a popular account of structure and habit . s of grasshopper structure is the absence of any well-defined waist, thestout hind-body having a straight under side and being attached to the fore-body by its full width and depth. In ants, as the most superficial of observersmust have noticed, these two parts are connected by an exceedingly slender stalkthat makes one wonder how the vital machinery necessary can be squeezed into so tenuous a strait. This ant-likegrasshopper appears at first sightto have such an attenuated junc-tion between fore-bodv and hind-body ; but this
Marvels of insect life ; a popular account of structure and habit . s of grasshopper structure is the absence of any well-defined waist, thestout hind-body having a straight under side and being attached to the fore-body by its full width and depth. In ants, as the most superficial of observersmust have noticed, these two parts are connected by an exceedingly slender stalkthat makes one wonder how the vital machinery necessary can be squeezed into so tenuous a strait. This ant-likegrasshopper appears at first sightto have such an attenuated junc-tion between fore-bodv and hind-body ; but this is an optical illu-sion brought about b\- naturepainting the under side and sides ofthe grasshopper with white in sucha fashion that at a slight distancethis portion is not seen and onh thestalked bo(l\- of an ant remains. There arc other remarkableiorms among the long-horns asamong the short-horns. .\ few-resemble stick-Insects, (eitaiii ofthe wingless species attain a largesize and an aspect of ferocity,some of them being very liberally 1 Myrnicco]ihana Photo by] [H. Bastin. int. Bl!5H CutKi. In this photograph the male is shown. The difference between the sexes willbe seen at a glance oncomparing the hind-parts. Digger-Wasp and Cicada. 155 decorated with spines upon the fore-body as well as the smaller ones usual on the are few representatives of the family in Britain, and of these the majority arefound only in the South of England. Quite recently, however, their numbers havebeen increased by the introduction of a singular alieni with foreign plants, which hasbecome naturalized in our greenhouses. This, no doubt, will cause alarm to theowners and gardeners, but it is probable that it will do them far more good thanharm by destroying noxious Insects rather than plants. Digger-Wasp and Cicada. The digger-wasp ^ is one of the largest species of wasp, and withal one of thefiercest of its kind. Like other of the solitary-wasps whose ways are describedin this w
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