156 Education through Nature 



XV. Grasshoppers. By B. H. B. 



(Outline. Supplied by the teacher.) 



i. Introduction, anecdotes; 2. body; 3. eyes; 4. antenna; 

 5. mouth- parts ; 6. thorax; 7. wings; 8. legs; 9. protective 

 resemblances; 10. color; n. sense of hearing; 12. abdomen; 

 13. reproduction; 14. internal organs, 15. respiration; 16. 



i. Most of us like the cry of the grasshopper; it brings 

 to mind the warm, dry, sunny days, the time of fruit and 

 flowers. 



He likes to sing, is fond of moonlight, likes the shade 

 and the cool, still places under the green herbs. 



When you see the large long legs stretched out behind, 

 and the long feelers waving to the wind, you will know this 

 is a grasshopper, the joyful, happy singer of the meadow. 



The name of the insect at once tells you something about 

 him. He lives much in the grass; his chief motion is in 

 hops and long jumps. 



Not all grasshoppers live in the grass however; some 

 spend most of their time in trees, some live in garden walls, 

 or under the leaves, and in the grass of the dusty wayside. 

 Some also live in woods, among the pine- and fir-trees. In 

 South America there are large and splendid grasshoppers; 



