Half hours with insects . stages injures the roots of fruit treesby sucking the sap with its beak, while the fly in its periodical visits deserts the oak trees, its natural food plant,and invades our orchards, causing by the deep stings of Fig. Seventeen Year Cicada, eggs and its large, powerful ovipositor the 3oung twigs ? and smallbranches to wither and break off. The most remarkable fact about this insect is that, whileso far as we know the other species of Cicada pass but twoor three years* in attaining the winged, adult state, thepresent one lives under ground over sixteen ye
Half hours with insects . stages injures the roots of fruit treesby sucking the sap with its beak, while the fly in its periodical visits deserts the oak trees, its natural food plant,and invades our orchards, causing by the deep stings of Fig. Seventeen Year Cicada, eggs and its large, powerful ovipositor the 3oung twigs ? and smallbranches to wither and break off. The most remarkable fact about this insect is that, whileso far as we know the other species of Cicada pass but twoor three years* in attaining the winged, adult state, thepresent one lives under ground over sixteen years, assumingtowards the end of the seventeenth the winged state. AVe * The European spec^ics of Cicada live three years, according to Ilaldcinan. 1 34 HALF HOURS WITH ESTSECTS. [Packard. have seen that the May beetle is about three years in attain-ing the beetle state, and the wire worm and boring beetles,such as the apple borer, may be three or four years in thelarval condition, but no other insects are as yet known, withthis sole remarkable exception, to be so long lived in theirimmature state. The eggs of the Seventeen Year Cicada to the number offive hundred are laid in June, and about the middle of Jul},in the Middle States, the grub
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