Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 648
pond-side! We can see the eyes even a longway off. The hearing organs of insects are indeedsmall, and in queer places. So difficult is itto find them that some entomologists formerlydeclared that insects have no ears, and there-fore cannot hear. Such statements did notseem reasonable, in view of… … tion. This is the position of the ear-like organson katydids, some members of the green-grass-hopper family, and the crickets. In somegrasshoppers, like the large one with which weare familiar, as shown in the illustration, thereis an ear on each side of the body, just abovethe large leg. In some…
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