Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 215
digious leaps. They are half an inch or less in tastic shapes, that they become the queerest-look-length, yet some of the relatives of those shown ing insects which nature has produced,in the pictures can jump six feet. If a man, in It is supposed that the enlargement of the backproportion to his… … A SELECTION FROM THE MANY LUDICROUS FORMS OF TR EE-HOIPF.R INSECTS. 1911.] NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS 749 certain parts of plants, such as thorns and galls.Their enemies, mistaking them for growths thatare not good to eat, pass them by without attack-ing them. The hoppers themselves live…
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