NATURAL HISTORY, 4B 
‘hundred and fifty, being white, and about the fize of a carraway- 
‘omfit. They are thus carefully covered, as well to defend them from 
the injuries of the weather, as from the attacks of the biack-beetle; 
that being itfelf an under ground inhabitant, would, but for this pre- 
€aution, devour or deftroy them. To prevent this, the female mole 
Cricket is often -pofted as a ceutinel near the neft, and when the black 
‘vader plunges into feize its prey, the guardian infect féizes him be- 
‘hind, and inftantly bites him in two. 
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Nothing can exceed the care and afliduity which thefe animals exhi- _ 
‘bit in the prefervation of their young. “Wherever the neft, is placed, 
‘their feems to be a fortification, avenues, and entrenchments, drawn 
Yound it: there are numberlefs winding-ways that lead to it, anda 
ditch drawn about it, which few of its infe&t enemies are able to pafs. But 
their care is not confined to this only; for at the approach of winter 
they carry their neft entirely away, and fink it deeper in the ground, 
fo that the froft can have no influence in retarding the young brood 
tom coming to maturity. As the weather grows milder, they raife 
their magazine in proportion ; till, at laft they bring it as near the fur- 
face as they can, to receive the genial influence of the fun, without 
Wholly expofing it to views yet, should the froft unexpectedly return, 
-they fink it again as before. 
~ Belonging to the fecond order of infects, we find a tribe of little ani- 
Mals, which, though differing in fize and colour, ftrongly refemble 
€ach other in figure, appetites, nature, and transformation. But 
— though they all appear of one family, yet man has been taught to hold 
- them in different eftimation ; for while fome of this tribe amufe him 
‘With their chirpings, and banifh folitude from the fields, others come 
in fwarms, eat up every thing that is green, and ina fingle night con- 
Vert the moft delightful landfcape into a dreary wafte. However, i 
thefe animals be feparately confidered, the devouring locuft is not in 
the leaft more mifchievous than the mufical grafshopper; the only dif- 
area is, that one fpecies come for food in-afwarm, the other feeds 
mely, 
That animal which is called the gra/shopper with as, differs greatly — 
from the cicada of antiquity ; for as our infect is active enough in hop- 
Ping through the long grafs, from whence it has taken its name, the 
cicada had not this power, but either walked or flew. The little hit- 
fing note alfo of our grafchopper is very different from the fong of the 
Cicada, which was louder and far more mufical. The manner in which 
this note is produced by the two animals is very different; for the ci- 
“ada makes it by a Kind of buckler, which the male ‘has beneath its 
belly ; the grafshopper by a tranfparent membrane that covers an hole 
at the bafe of its wings. There is fill a greater variety in all thefe 
With regard to fhape and colour. Some are green, fome black, fome 
Ivid, and fome variegated; but many of them do not fhew all their 
colours till they fly. Some have long legs, fome fhort; fome with 
More joints, others with fewer. Some fing others are mute; fome are 
Mnocent, doing no damage to the hufbandman; while others do fuch 
Prodigious mifchief, that\they are looked upon in fome countries as 
®ne of the terrible fcourges of the incenfed Divinity. 
Of this variegated tribe, the little grafshopper that breeds in fuch 
Plenty in every meadow, and that continues its chirping through the 
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