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and antennae much as a person pulls a foot out of a 

 boot. 



However, all grasshoppers do not pass the winter 



in the egg state. Three or four species hatch in early 



autumn and the young in various stages can, in suitable 



localities, be seen jumping vigorously 



about on any warm sunny day in 

 Grasshoppers. . J 



mid-winter. If their presence at such 

 a season comes to the attention of a newspaper 

 reporter, the press of the entire State is apt to teem 

 with warnings of a coming grasshopper plague, of 

 which the youngsters are thought to be the advance 

 guard. These hibernating young are the first to reach 

 maturity the next spring, usually becoming full grown 

 about the 20th of April. 



Fig. 61 Coral-winged Grasshopper, Hippiscus tubercvlatus (Pal. de B.). 

 (Survives the winter in young stage and reaches maturity in April. After Lugger.) 



Again, nine species out of our fifty-one pass the 

 winter as mature insects. They are our smallest 

 <;T;isshoppers, all being, when full grown, less than 

 half an inch in length ; gray or blackish in color; and 

 with the hard upper crust of the 

 . thorax ^tending the full length of 

 the body and covering the wings. 

 They are called "grouse grasshoppers," and during 

 cold weather they hide beneath the loose bark of logs 



