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than any other of our species of Orchelimum is found 

 in upland localities, along fence rows, and in clover 

 and timothy mead- 

 ows. In early au- 

 tumn it is very fond 

 of resting on the 

 leaves and stems of 

 the iron-weed so 



COmmOll in many Fig. 52 Common Meadow Grasshopper. 



blue-grass pastures. c Male - After Lugger.) 



This green grasshopper seems to be somewhat carniv- 

 orous in habit, as on two occasions I have discovered it 

 feeding upon the bodies of small moths which in some 

 way it had managed to capture. The note of the male 

 is the familiar zip-zip-zip-zip ze-e-e-e the first part 

 being repeated about four times, usually about twice 

 a second; the ze-e-e-e continuing from two or three to 

 twenty or more seconds. 



"The poetry of earth is never dead: 



When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, 

 And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run 



From hedge to hedge about the new mown mead; 



That is the grasshopper's he takes the lead 

 In summer luxury, he has never done 

 With his delights; for when tired out with fun 



He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed." 



The "stone or camel crickets," nine species of 



which occur in Indiana, are wingless Locustidw of 



medium or large size with a thick 



Camel Crickets. bodv and arched back. They are sel- 

 dom seen except by the professional 

 collector, as they are nocturnal in their habits, and 

 during the day hide beneath stones along the margins 



