INTERDUNAL PONDS AND TAMARACK SWAMPS 



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The leather-colored locust (Fig. 223) is yellowish brown to 

 olive, and a narrow bright yellow line runs over the middle of 



FIG. 226. A sphagnum bog, tamaracks at margin 



the head and down the back. The male 

 is 1.25 inches long; the female, nearly 

 2 inches. 



The Nebraska locust (Fig. 224) has a 

 slender body, a large head. It is olive 

 green marked with reddish brown; a broad 

 black band extends back from each eye. 

 The male is slightly less than an inch; 

 the female, slightly more than an inch in 

 length. 



The striped ground crickets (Fig. 222) 

 are only about .4 of an inch long, brown FlG - 22 7 . FIG. 22 s 



in color, with dark stripes lengthwise on FIGS. 227, 228: Fig. 227 



, , J .. , , The slender sedge, Car ex 



the head. They are very plentiful and are filiformis; Fig . 228 .__ The 



out feeding by day. 



shore sedge, C. riparia. 



