164 Education through Nature 



You cannot feel their muscles, for their skeletons are 

 on the outside of their bodies, and like coats of armor 

 cover all their muscles. 



In locomotion the fore legs are directed forward and 

 the two hinder pairs backward. In motion the fore and 

 hind feet on one side, and the middle one on the other, 

 are moved simultaneously and then the remaining three. 



Tarsus 

 (Toot) 



The grasshopper pushes against the support on whjVH he 

 is resting and away he goes just as you think you have 

 him. He is not easy to find when he moves away from you 

 for he looks so much like his surroundings. 



Q. Protective resemblances are strikingly exemplified 

 in insect life. In the order Orthopter-a the phenomena are 

 carried to an extent elsewhere unsurpassed in the animal 

 kingdom. Adaption to surroundings is noticed in insects 

 by which a species is rendered practically invisible amongst 

 its surroundings on account of its resemblance to a leaf, 

 stone, twig, etc., to remain immune from attack from 

 other insects. 



10. When a grasshopper lives on a dusty road, he is 

 dust-colored. When he lives on a speckled rock he is 

 black or gray, and when he lives in fields he is green or 

 mottled green and brown like the grasses. Some are 

 fine fellows with soot-colored wing cases, and brilliant 

 wings. 



The color of the grasshopper does not seem to be laid 

 on the surface of his coat, as that of the beetle or scales 



