| Show THE GRAS grasshopper MUSI CIAN MONSTER AND AVIATOR once more the ravenous grasshopper wrought devastation upon western fields this fall end and the plague became especially destructive in texas writing to the national geographic society david describes de thia this fiscina fascinating ting if ruthless creature aa an follow follows the ne young kila grasshopper braho if is probably tw ta enty days old and its wines wings have not developed but it can jump a hundred times its length whereas man can scarcely cover three times his length at a leap when N ben its wings ings grow and its internal air acs bacs f fill with air it can sail away for miles one representative of this great family can sail for a ind miles before the wind and her they go in suca numbers that they make male a cloud 2 2000 square miles I 1 in n ex tent its greit front lip hides a pair of jaws laws effect effective he aa as a hay ch chopper opp erand end it I 1 is an appetite as voracious vora clou as fiat oat of a hil popo tamus this voracious orn clous ness and und these jaws pre ahat hat have ninde made several of itu lt r the plague of mankind they iney aly in such h numbers to baffle nil fill lion and every living green thing for thou 1 if tf square milts dl appears down their thre at f leaving the coun try the inott anft t desolate hen te ie boung g emert tg from the egg it Is very small indeed a wingless inglesi ingles i helpless hel plese little creature all legs and mouth I 1 it pw PIMPS ars through successive age or itne as they are called each one of which Is I 1 ioia rated from the oller by a moult or casting cating of its outer shell thee the e boults take place ot nt fixed pt pirl ri 4 ard rs s the insect flails lisell ri strained by its urra inela inelastic baele lei ton toll a rent iscum billni the back anil and the lancet ot oft and dui din pero ly kielp bep ew m s vit oj of the tile ol oll I itkin incao pil in a nc diw but delk abc atc cuti cutich cl take takes some lime time to harden and color up NN whether bether this creature crea tare has his a personality sona anna lity or not may be forever ex ou difficult for humana humans to decide its eyes that look like cows eyes really cast a th thousand images on a special kind of brain so different from our own on that we cannot it and then beside besides these great me big jes eyes it has three others if its short abort ringed borne boms are not horns borns fit at all but sense organs of ao so complicated a nature that we do not yet know certainly whether they are organs of tinell smell or not and it Is to supposed oed that they may be the eat seat of sense organs that we human humans do not mot ba bae e lu iti front of the great thighs imbed ded on each side of the body are the so called ears tuned no doub to catch vibrations of the air far too delicate or too frequent for our ears ehrs the jumping legs of ane creature are ore filled alth pon powerful erful mascim s which when they expand can burl it through the air and enable it to ea cape from its enemies on the inner side along the lower loer rib of the wing ning Is the musical in instrument trumont it Is 1 a to v of hard bend like projections chih h are alry highly de elope 1 in the males but not at all in the female 1 when I hen the edge of the wing Is scraped over thebe projections a musical sound 14 I 1 birde |
