Nature readers : $b Sea-side and way-side. No. 3Wright, Julia McNair
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Nature readers : $b Sea-side and way-side. No. 3
Wright, Julia McNair
Nature study -- Juvenile literature; Readers
3. How does the grasshopper make his music?
4. What can you say of Mrs. Grasshopper’s sword?
5. Do all grasshoppers live in the grass?
6. Are the head and chest of an insect in the form of rings?
7. To what order does the grasshopper belong?
8. How many straight-wing families are there?
9. How are they sometimes divided?
10. Tell me about the grasshopper’s legs.
11. Describe his wings.
12. What do grasshoppers eat?
13. Where are the grasshopper’s eggs laid?
14. Tell me how the grasshopper changes from egg to full-grown
grasshopper.
15. Can you tell me of any of his queer ways?
16. Describe some grasshoppers to me.
17. Does the grasshopper migrate?
18. Does the grasshopper live alone?
19. What insect is the robber cousin of the grasshopper?
20. Tell me how a locust differs from a grasshopper.
21. What can you tell me of the numbers of locusts?
22. Tell me what harm locusts do.
23. What means are taken to destroy them?
24. What can you say about their size and color?
25. What insect is the grasshopper’s merry cousin?
26. Describe a cricket.
27. What three kinds of crickets are there?
28. What difference is there between the house and field cricket?
29. What will crickets eat and drink?
30. Tell me how the cricket plays his tunes.
31. Tell me about the life of a field cricket.
32. Describe a mole cricket.
33. Describe a mole cricket’s nest.
34. Tell me something of the mole cricket’s habits.
35. What is it that makes the mole cricket shine sometimes?
36. Why has the mole cricket been called the earth crab?
37. In what is the mole cricket like a mole?
III.
1. To what order of insects do the frog-hoppers belong?
2. What can you tell me about insects of this order?
3. Will you mention some of them?
4. What can you say about their wings?
5. How does the little frog-hopper make the ball of foam?
6. Of what use to him is this ball of foam, or froth?
7. What does the scale bug make for his covering, instead of froth?
8. Which is the largest insect of this order?
9. What name has he besides cicada?
10. Which of the insects of this order is the ant’s cow?
11. Which one carries a light?
12. On what food do all hoppers feed?
13. Where does the cicada lay her eggs?
14. Why does she not put them in a living branch?
15. How does she make the hole in which to put her eggs?
16. Where do the larvæ of the cicada live?
17. What kind of weather does the cicada like?
IV.
1. To what insect order do moths and butterflies belong?
2. How do the feelers of butterflies differ from those of moths?
3. How does the butterfly hold its wings, while at rest?
4. Which side of the butterfly’s wings is more gayly colored?
5. Why is this?
6. How does the moth hold its wings while resting?
7. What are the butterfly’s wings often called?
8. Which has the thicker body, a butterfly or a moth?
9. Which has the more furry coat?
10. Which usually flies by night?
11. Do butterflies ever fly by night?
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