Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 109 June to November 1904 . A Cicada Pupas Hanging Tower or OrioleHut slit through the bark into the fibre of atwig, or the tender tip of a larger this she deposits a certain numberof eggs. Then she moves farther alongthe branch, saws another slit, and againoviposits. Thus she continues until shehas exhausted her store of four or fivehundred eggs. At length, weakened byher labors, she falters and falls and soondies. Like a good mother, her last careis for her offspring, whom, however, she isnever to see. A month or six weeks ofsunlight and son
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 109 June to November 1904 . A Cicada Pupas Hanging Tower or OrioleHut slit through the bark into the fibre of atwig, or the tender tip of a larger this she deposits a certain numberof eggs. Then she moves farther alongthe branch, saws another slit, and againoviposits. Thus she continues until shehas exhausted her store of four or fivehundred eggs. At length, weakened byher labors, she falters and falls and soondies. Like a good mother, her last careis for her offspring, whom, however, she isnever to see. A month or six weeks ofsunlight and song, of happy courtship,of busy maternal duty,—this is the sumof the cicadas mature life after its longsubterranean career. We now follow the life of the littleones. Twigs within which female cicadashave oviposited generally die. Foreststhus infested present the appearance,along the tops and sides of trees, of hav-ing been blighted by frost. The leavesdie, giving a ragged and sorry aspect to the trees whichotherwise are un-injured. This isabout all theharm tha
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