INSECT INTRUDERS. 



This large cricket is a powerful brute 

 when full grown, and the hoppers 

 even in their younger stages are 

 hardy little beggars and will hop a 

 long distance in search of succulent 

 seedlings, amongst which they prob- 

 ably place our young annuals high up 

 in their Menu of tasty delicacies. The 

 smoky brown cricket is not the only pest 

 of this nature we have. There is a com- 

 mon little black chap, very plentiful in 

 the country and perhaps more addicted 

 to fields and cultivated tracts than to the 

 garden. It is an easily recognized insect. 



Another pest of this jat is the little 

 Mole Cricket which resembles our 

 English insect and lives very much in 

 the same manner, destroying roots by 

 his burrowing proclivities. He is also 

 carnivorous, and the male is addicted, 

 when he gets the chance, to devouring 

 his offspring. 



Have you ever closely inspected this 

 curious little animal ? He is more like a 

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