Show The 17 year locusts about winch tilo newspapers printed so many articles during the early part of the summer have come and gone but their united labors have left quite an impress upon the forest scenery In many places about New York the oaks and other trees exhibit ex-hibit a great many broken branches the leaves of which have withered and asa as-a consequence the woodland scones Show in checkered spots a late autumnal brown In old times before the advent of the white man with his ax no doubt this periodical pruning of tho forest did not do any harm but in these later days when the locusts extend their attentions to everything that has a largo enough stem to contain their eggsto the peach the pear and the apple trees to tho currant cur-rant and STonsnliorrv Imslira his osHmata of their i wide utility is lost in his consideration consid-eration of the orchard that has already been pruned Tho eggs of the locusts were found this summer in over 70 kinds of trees bushes and herbaceous plants Indeed the females tried their ovipositors on everything that came in their way of tui apparently by way of experiment Tho distribution of the locusts into colonies was interesting They occupied occu-pied by the million many hills and patches of woodland that seemed to differ in no respect from neighboring tracts where they were not so numerous In one of these colonies on Staten Island the ground about tho tree trunks was so covered by the pupa shells that it was in places completely hidden and as the season wore on the dead locusts had to be raked up as they gave forth an unpleasant odor At dusk the sound of the many insects crawling from the ground up the tree trunks was quite au diblLa constant trampingand particularly par-ticularly vigorous pupa sometimes ascended as-cended the trees to a height of 30 feet The severe storm that prevailed in tho latter part of May killed and deformed deform-ed many locusts just then emerging from tho ground and also damaged the young leaves on the easterly sides of exposed trees In point of reputation this storm also did the locusts harm for it was no uncommon matter to hear them accused of causing tho withered condition of the leaves ovon before they had commenced to lay any eggs Cor New York Post |