Elementary studies in insect life Elementary studies in insect life elementarystudie00hunt Year: 1902 178 ELEMENTARY STUDIES IN INSECT LIFE ORTHOPTERA THAT WALK. - These insects are known to every housewife. They are most active at night-time, and readily learn the paths leading to the pantry shelf. The eggs are all laid at once, within a brown capsule. (Fig. 121.) Many species are wingless. Praying - The Praying Mantis possesses many appellations. The fore feet, well developed for FIG. 144. Young mantis on lookout for prey — natural size. Photographed from life by
Elementary studies in insect life Elementary studies in insect life elementarystudie00hunt Year: 1902 178 ELEMENTARY STUDIES IN INSECT LIFE ORTHOPTERA THAT WALK. - These insects are known to every housewife. They are most active at night-time, and readily learn the paths leading to the pantry shelf. The eggs are all laid at once, within a brown capsule. (Fig. 121.) Many species are wingless. Praying - The Praying Mantis possesses many appellations. The fore feet, well developed for FIG. 144. Young mantis on lookout for prey — natural size. Photographed from life by M. V. Slingerland. grasping, the elongate prothorax and prominent head, capable of rotary motion, certainly give these insects, to say the least, a strange appearance. They are rather sluggish in their movements, except when an approach- ing fly reaches a point within their grasp. All these insects are carnivorous. The eggs are laid side by side until they form a mass upon some object such as a fence- board, rail, or limb of a tree. The young escape readily, leaving the egg-mass in form but showing the openings from which the insects come. The mantis family vary in color from dark brown in some to light 1 Family, Blattidce. ' Family, Mantidce.
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