. Animal life in field and garden . Mole-cricketa, adult, somewhat enlarged;fore foot, greatly enlarged. 386 ANIMAL LIFE IN FIELD AND GARDEN. other so as to make a sort of singing noise. It is aformidable ravager of our gardens. Do crickets really chirp with their wings 1 askedEmile, in surprise. Yes, my boy. In chirping thecricket raises its wings, whichare dry and wrinkled, and rubsthe edges together other chirping insects doabout the same. The vineyardgrasshopper, the one with thelarge green and yellow belly, hason its back two round scales whichfit together and rub against e
. Animal life in field and garden . Mole-cricketa, adult, somewhat enlarged;fore foot, greatly enlarged. 386 ANIMAL LIFE IN FIELD AND GARDEN. other so as to make a sort of singing noise. It is aformidable ravager of our gardens. Do crickets really chirp with their wings 1 askedEmile, in surprise. Yes, my boy. In chirping thecricket raises its wings, whichare dry and wrinkled, and rubsthe edges together other chirping insects doabout the same. The vineyardgrasshopper, the one with thelarge green and yellow belly, hason its back two round scales whichfit together and rub against eachother. They constitute its musi-cal instrument. Other grasshop-pers play the violin; that is tosay, they scrape the rough edges of their wingswith their big curved thighs as bows or cicada has under its stomach in a double cavity,protected by covers cap-able of being raised moreor less, two dry and shinymembranes stretched astaut as drumheads. Theinsect sings by making these vibrate in their the mole-cricket say cree-cree like the ordi-nary cricket? No; its song has a monotonous sound, being asort of sha
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