The book Half Hours With Insects was written by author Alpheus Spring Packard Here you can read free online of Half Hours With Insects book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Half Hours With Insects a good or bad book?
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The column of these imperfect insects passed the houses of two of our party, who assured me that it continued moving forward without any interruption, except by night, for more than a month." Of very similar habits is our red-legged grasshopper {CcUoptenus femur-rubrum. Fig. 87, 6). It appears at inter- vals in immense swarms. In 1871 it was very destructive to grass in northern Maine, seriously damaging the hay crop. 25 Digiti zed by Google 122 HALF HOURS WITH INSECTS. [Packard. It has also sw...armed in Canada. Dr. Harris enumerates its visitations in New England in the last century when it de- voured every green thing. The habits of this species are not well known, except that it appears in midsummer in the winged state. The wingless larvae iappear in June, and, as Harris recommends, hay crops should be mown early, before the insects fly in swarms. The last of summer they couple and lay their eggs in holes in the earth, where they are hatched in the spring. As Harris suggests, this insect can onl}* be kept under by concerted action on the part of farmers.
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