NATURE'S CRAFTSMEN 



often find pupa? maimed or that had died during 

 ecdysis. 



These soft, white objects are dehcate and tempting 

 morsels for the birds, which destroy quantities of them. 

 Other enemies await to destroy 

 them, even the domestic cat! 

 Next door to my house a large 

 church was being erected/ A 

 stray cat had taken up her 

 abode underneath 

 a wooden slianty 

 built on one end of 

 the lot as a tool- 

 house; and she de- 

 veloped a taste for 

 the emerging ci- 

 cadas. She would 

 watch until the in- 

 sects had got out 

 of their shells, and 

 then snap up the 

 white, soft morsels 

 and eat them with 

 greedy relish. It 

 seems a hard fate; 

 but what is nature 

 to do with her su- 

 perfluous children? 

 Unless a vigorous check upon increase were provided, 

 certain species would soon overrun the earth. 



After emergence the cicada fastens itself at a little 



SECTIONAL VIEW OF CICADA HUT AND 

 BURROW 



Showini!: crossing and interblendine; burrow 



' The now sanctuary which my own congregation was building. 



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