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THE GREAT GREEN GRASSHOPPER 

 (Acrida viridissimd] 



S the fields are now teeming with grass- 

 hoppers, large and small, it will be 

 quite easy and well worth while to 

 capture a few, and note their curious 

 form and varied markings. Those we find in the 

 meadows are usually of the same tint of green as 

 the grass on which they feed ; but if we collect 

 these insects from a bare chalky soil, they will be 

 grey-coloured, so as to imitate the general tone of 

 the ground they rest upon. 



There is also a very handsome species, which is 

 a tree-dweller, and may be found at this season in 

 some localities by shaking oak branches ; in other 

 places I hear of their being caught in hazel hedges 

 and on sunny banks, where they are easily secured 

 with a small butterfly-net. 



I kept a specimen of this insect a few years ago, 

 and find it a very interesting pet. A glass globe 

 covered with a piece of net forms a suitable home 

 for it, and although it prefers flies and small insects, 

 it will eat raw meat and succulent cabbage-stalks. 



No one could fail to admire the exquisitely 

 brilliant green of this insect with its golden eyes, 



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