. First[-ninth] annual report on the noxious, beneficial and other insects, of the state of Missouri, made to the State board of agriculture, pursuant to an appropriation for this purpose from the Legislature of the state . hiis niveus Harr.), an insect briefly noticedin my first Report (p. 138). The young also hatchabout the first of May. After eating through itsegg-cap, the new-born cricket is still enveloped inan exceedingly fine membrane, from whicJi it soonextricates itself, and which it leaves at the orifice ofthe puncture. These young crickets are whitishand very active, and generally c
. First[-ninth] annual report on the noxious, beneficial and other insects, of the state of Missouri, made to the State board of agriculture, pursuant to an appropriation for this purpose from the Legislature of the state . hiis niveus Harr.), an insect briefly noticedin my first Report (p. 138). The young also hatchabout the first of May. After eating through itsegg-cap, the new-born cricket is still enveloped inan exceedingly fine membrane, from whicJi it soonextricates itself, and which it leaves at the orifice ofthe puncture. These young crickets are whitishand very active, and generally conceal themselvesin the thick June foliage of our woods or our or-chards. At this time of their life they subsist prin-cipally on plant lice, eggs of insects, and other deli-cate animal food, and, if they can get nothing better,will exhibit their cannibalistic propensities by de-vouring the weaker individuals of their own is astonishing how rapidly, at this age, they willclear an Aphis-covered twig. Subsequently, asthey grow larger, they are often content with avegetable diet, and thus they perfectly combinein one species herbivorous and carnivorous the first molt, they begin to vary a good deal. OF THE STATE ENTOMOLOGIST. 121 in color, the females generally being quite dark. The mature in-sects were illustrated in my first Report (Figs. 77, 78). I had, last summer, an extensive brood of these little crickets inone of my breeding cages, and succeeded in rearing them to thewinged state, which they assume during the fore part of July. Themale produces a very shrill noise by the friction of his front wings,but the female is silent. This Snowy Cricket shares with his more robust Jumping com-panion in the nefarious midnight-work of gnawing, girdling or sever-ing different parts of the grape thyrse, causing the berries either to[Fig. 50. J shrivel or fall, and produc- ^,<.«^^^^S5^ ^^^^f^-- ^?^^^?^^^^^^ ing what is often known as^^^^^^u~ ^^^^ shanking. It is w
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