1 68 INSECT LIFE. 



The flying grasshopper clacked his wings, 



Like castanets gayly beating ; 

 The toad hopped by us, with jolting springs ; 

 The yellow spider that spins and swings 

 Swayed on its ladder of silken strings ; 

 The shy cicada, whose noon-voice rings 

 So piercing shrill that it almost stings 

 The sense of hearing, and all the things 

 Which the fervid northern summer brings — 

 The world that buzzes and crawls and sings — 



Were friends of the high-top sweeting, 



Elizabeth Akcrs."^ 



INSECTS INFESTING FOLIAGE. 



The Apple-tree Tent-caterpillar {Field and 

 School Work). — In early spring, as soon as the leaves 

 begin to expand, conspicuous webs may be found on 

 the branches of apple and other trees. The begin- 

 ning of such a web is represented in the upper part 

 of Fig. 137. These webs are the ''tents" of the 

 apple-tree tent-caterpillar — an insect that is social 

 while in the caterpillar state. Each colony consists 

 of the larvae that have hatched from a cluster of eggs 

 deposited by a moth on a twig near the place where 

 the web is afterward built. Such a cluster of eggs is 

 represented above the web in the figure. Usually, 

 however, the tent is built much farther from the ^gg- 

 cluster than is shown here. 



1. Search for egg-clusters on the twigs of apple 

 before the leaves appear ; they can be found at any 

 lime during the winter or earl}^ spring. 



2. If egg-clusters are found, examine them from 



* From The High-top Sweeting, by permission of Messrs. Charles 

 Scribner's Sons. 



