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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 201

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CHANGES IN THE LIFE OF A SEVENTEEN-YEAR CICADA. 3, pupa ; i, cast pupa-shell; c, imago ; d, punctured twig ; e, two eggs.(a, b, and c natural size ; d and e enlarged.) 75o NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS. [June, Cicada family are the periodical cicada orseventeen-year loc. ,i, as it is called,… … this fierce, large, and handsome wasp and car-ried away to be buried in a den in the ground.Sometimes the wasp is not able to carry thecicada, and during the struggle in nid-air bothtumble to the ground and maybe cpughtin a net.The wasp stings the cicada so as to paralyzeit, and then drags it down…

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