. Insects, their ways and means of living. Insects. THE GRASSHOPPER can blame probably on the early settlers of our States, who bestowed upon the creatures encountered in the New World the names of animals familiar at home; but, having no zoologists along for their guidance, they made many errors of identification. Scientists have sought to estab- lish a better state of nomenclatural affairs by creating a set of international names tor all living things, but since their names are in Latin, or Latinized Greek, thev are seldom practicable for everyday purposes. Knowing now that a grasshopper is
. Insects, their ways and means of living. Insects. THE GRASSHOPPER can blame probably on the early settlers of our States, who bestowed upon the creatures encountered in the New World the names of animals familiar at home; but, having no zoologists along for their guidance, they made many errors of identification. Scientists have sought to estab- lish a better state of nomenclatural affairs by creating a set of international names tor all living things, but since their names are in Latin, or Latinized Greek, thev are seldom practicable for everyday purposes. Knowing now that a grasshopper is a locust, it only needs to be said that a true locust is any grasshopperlike insect with short horns, or antennae (see Fron- tispiece). A similar in- sect with long slender antennae is either a katydid (Figs. 23, 24), or a member of the cricket family (Fig. 39). If you will collect and examine a tew specimens ot locusts, which we will proceed to call grass- hoppers, you may ob- serve that some have the rear end of the body smoothly rounded and that others have the body ending in four horny prongs. The second kind are females (Fig. 2 B); the others (A) are males and may be disregarded for the present. It is one of the pro- visions of nature that whatever any creature is compelled by its instinct to do, for the doing of that thing it is pro- vided with appropriate tools. Its tools, however, unless [3}. Rig. 2. The end of the body of a male and a female grasshopper The body, or abdomen, of a male (A) is bluntly rounded; that of the female (B) bears two pairs of thick prongs, which constitute the egg-laying organ, or ovi- positor (Uvp). Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Snodgrass, R. E. (Robert E. ), 1875-1962. New York Smithsonian Institution series
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