. Ways of the six-footed. Insects. PIPERS AND MINNESINGERS 25 color, which makes him seem a ghost of an insect rather than a real one. Figure 13 shows a male of the species; his fiddle is in structure similar to that of the black cricket. He is a true ventriloquist, and it is almost impossible to find him by following the seeming direction of his song. There are two species of snowy tree-crickets common in eastern United States which resemble each other so closely in appearance that only an entomologist's trained eye can distinguish them. However, their music is totally different. I remember w
. Ways of the six-footed. Insects. PIPERS AND MINNESINGERS 25 color, which makes him seem a ghost of an insect rather than a real one. Figure 13 shows a male of the species; his fiddle is in structure similar to that of the black cricket. He is a true ventriloquist, and it is almost impossible to find him by following the seeming direction of his song. There are two species of snowy tree-crickets common in eastern United States which resemble each other so closely in appearance that only an entomologist's trained eye can distinguish them. However, their music is totally different. I remember well a certain September when I was as- sociated with two ento- mologists who spent most of their leisure in a patient and loving study of the habits of these two species. One they named " the whistler " and the other " the ; The whistler is oftener found on low shrubs or in the grass, and he gives a clear, soft, prolonged, unbroken note. The fiddler's note is louder and short and con- tinuously repeated. To the listener it soon seems like a refined and gentle imitation of the katydid's song. There seem to be three notes, the first and thu'd being. Fig. 13. Snowy 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 Comstock, Anna Botsford, 1854-1930. Boston, Ginn & Company
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