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THICKET COMMUNITIES 



locust {Melanoplus differ entialis) , an occasional red-legged locust, and the 

 striped shrub cricket, the short-winged brown locust (Stenobothrus cur- 

 tipennis), the short- winged meadow grasshopper (Xiphidium brevipenne), 

 and the Texas katydid (Scudderia texensis) (40, pp. 330, 390). 



The jug-making wasp (Eumenes fratemus) (40, p. 207) makes its 

 jug-like nest on the herbaceous plants. The social wasp (Polistes) is 

 a frequent visitor of the flowers, 

 and sometimes attaches its comb 

 to the willow. The oblong leaf- 

 winged katydid (Amblycorypha 

 oblongifolia) (Fig. 263) (40, p. 

 391) and the fork-tailed katydid 



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Fig. 261. — The tarnished plant-bug (Lygus pratensis); about one- fourth of an 

 inch long (after Forbes) . 



Fig. 262. — The dusky leaf-bug (Adelphocoris rapidus); about one-fourth of an 

 inch long (after Forbes). 



{Scudderia furcata) (Fig. 264) are residents. The latter places its egg 

 on leaves of shrubs (40). Willow leaf-feeders are numerous; several 

 lepidopterous larvae are common. These include the brilliant larva of 

 the smeared dagger-moth (Fig. 265), the cecropia moth, the willow 

 sphinx, the viceroy and mourning-cloak butterflies, the maia moth 

 (Fig. 266), the fork-tailed caterpillar (137), larva of the maia moth, 

 and others. The small fly (Bibio albipennis) visits the flowers of the 



