1 68 INSECT LIFE. 



The flying grasshopper clacked his wings, 



Like castanets gayly beating ; 

 The toad hopped by us, with jolting springs ; 

 The yellow spider that spins and swings 

 Swayed on its ladder of silken strings ; 

 The shy cicada, whose noon-voice rings 

 So piercing shrill that it almost stings 

 The sense of hearing, and all the things 

 Which the fervid northern summer brings 

 The world that buzzes and crawls and sings- 

 Were friends of the high-top sweeting. 



Elizabeth Akcrs.* 



INSECTS INFESTING FOLIAGE. 



THE APPLE-TREE TENT-CATERPILLAR (Field and 

 School Work}. In early spring, as soon as the leaves 

 begin to expand, conspicuous webs may be found on 

 the branches of apple and other trees. The begin- 

 ning of such a web is represented in the upper part 

 of Fig. 137. These webs are the "tents' of the 

 apple-tree tent-caterpillar an insect that is social 

 while in the caterpillar state. Each colony consists 

 of the larvas that have hatched from a cluster of eggs 

 deposited by a moth on a twig near the place where 

 the web is afterward built. Such a cluster of eggs is 

 represented above the web in the figure. Usually, 

 however, the tent is built much farther from the egg- 

 cluster than is shown here. 



1. Search for egg-clusters on the twigs of apple 

 before the leaves appear ; they can be found at any 

 time during the winter or early spring. 



2. If egg-clusters are found, examine them from 



* From The High-top Sweeting, by permission of Messrs. Charles 

 Scribner's Sons. 



