The Short-Homed Grasshoppers or True Locusts 



eggs are laid beneath the surface of the ground in an egg pod in 

 shape something like a bent flask, the eggs in each pod averaging 

 from twenty-four to thirty-six in number. Each female in the 

 course of her life usually deposits two of these egg pods although 

 three and even four have been laid by the same female. The in- 

 sect passes the winter in the egg state and the young locust or 

 grasshopper hatches in the spring. The period between hatch- 

 ing and maturity averages eighty to ninety days and the grass- 

 hopper passes through four to five molts, the young grasshoppers 

 attaining their full wings only after the last molt. In about one 

 week after reaching full growth the insects pair and soon com' 

 mence ovipositing. There is but one annual generation in New 

 England, but two in Missouri. Egg-laying commences late in 

 July and some of the earlier eggs may hatch in the autumn in 

 New England, showing a tendency towards a second generation. 



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