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the railway correspond so closely with the color of 

 his back that his best friends and worst enemies will 

 overlook him if he will only remain quiet. Yea, even 

 that sharp-eyed 

 connoisseur of 

 grasshopper tid- 

 bits, the turkey 

 gobbler, often- 

 times walks right 

 over him mistak- 

 ing him for a way- 

 side pebble. 



Thus, by choos- 

 ing their resorts 

 to suit their col- 

 ors, or rather, in 

 the course of ages, 

 changing their 

 colors to suit their 

 environments, 

 grasshoppers have 

 been enabled each 

 year to wax, grow fat, and replenish the earth with 

 their progeny, at the same tini deplenishing it by 

 reason of their enormous numbers and their insatia- 

 ble appetites. 



In the latitude of central Indiana, the heyday of 

 the mature grasshopper's life lies between the dates 

 of mid- August and mid-October. Then it is that their 

 love calls are the most numerous ; that their ambitions 

 in life are satisfied, and that the eggs, destined to 

 carry the race through the rigors of an approaching 



Fig. 69 Carolina Grasshopper. 



Dissosteira Carolina (L.) 



(After Lugger.) 



