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mother puts upon these eggs. The eggs do not hatch until 

 food, in the form of young buds, appears. When left to natural 

 conditions, the buds and the caterpillars develop together and 

 one never precedes the other. As the hairy fellows increase in 

 size and demand more food, the foliage expands to meet the 

 increased demand for forage. The Junior Naturalist who simply 

 works " to get the answer" fails in getting this interesting part 

 of the lesson. 



What are the four stages in the life of the tent caterpillar ? 



By the time this meets the eyes of our Junior Naturalists, 

 there will have appeared in the counties of Livingston, Madi- 

 son, Monroe, Onondaga, Wyoming and Yates in this State the 

 seventeen-year locust or, more properly speaking, Cicada, about 

 which Mrs. Comstock has charmingly told you elsewhere. We 

 have a number of Junior Naturalists in these counties, and we 

 shall ask them to make observations upon this visitor and send 

 their reports to us for publication in a future number. A close 

 reader of Mrs. Comstock's article will see that these Cicadas are 

 really insects, that spend their lives in the ground for 

 17 years and come out to the air and sunshine only to prepare 

 eggs for another brood, and not to eat. The only damage they 

 do is to kill the tender shoots of trees where eggs are deposited. 

 When this occurs on trees nearly full grown, the damage is very 

 slight. We wish to call 3^our attention to what is said about the 

 manner in which the male produces a call for his mate. When 

 in large numbers the united sounds make an impression one will 

 never forget. 



Following is a list of the Junior Naturalist Clubs organized 

 up to May 24, 1899. Some of the Clubs have not yet sent us 

 the names of officers : 



