The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-06-28

by Prof. Reilly: 81 :
In the year 1877, and at Intervals OF
seventeen years thereafter, these 10 |:
Gusts will in all probability appear IN
the vicinity Of Scuylerville, n. ;, ana
from thence along both sides OF the
Hudson to it's mouth, east into Con.
necticut as far as New Haven. and
west across the north part OF New
Jersey into Pennsylvania.
The part of the prophecy relating 60
New jersey has been fulfilled. The
remaining regions will be heard from
with interest. In this year. also.
other broods are due in Dearborn
county, Ind; kalamazoo. Mich. ana
in parts Of Pennsylvania, North Caro-
lima. Virginia, and Maryland. Inc
brood whose pioneers have Justappear
ed in New Jersey were recorded Dy
Prof. Potter of Connecticut as having
first been remembered in l124, ana as
having appeared with regularity every
seventeen wears since down to 1870.
Since that time other observers have
recorded their appearance with equal
regularity.
Snow. about these locusts in New
Jersey continued the gentleman,
1.-THE first thing that people ought TO
know is that they are not locusts, 1of
the same reason that duck is not an
elephant. They are large tour-wlnsa
flies. True locusts are OF the grassnop-
per tribe. They have jaws that they
work sideways. the same as what are
called pinchbugs. They eat. These
large flies, or cicadas, don t eat. They
have nothing to eat with. They dor, I
want to eat. They don't live long
enough to eat. They don't come to the
surface of the earth for that purpose.
They have suckers, with which they
might, perhaps, suck up juices, but
they certainly do not eat. These CT
cada had never been seen in Europe by
F the early settlers here, and when they
heard a whirring in the woods, and
saw black clouds in the air. their mlnds
} went back to Egypt, and they calico
, the insects locusts.
; There are all sorts of errors regard
ing the mysterious visitors. Some say
: they sing with their mouths, ant
: others that the noise is made WIFI
!. their wings. The truth is that ont
!, NAV cut off both their heads and thel
:. wings and they will still sing. In the
chest of the insect are two Gttl
!, drums heads formed of thinmemDrane
;, nv muscular action air is forced agains
o these causing them to vlbrate. In
g knowledge that these locusts appea
y only once in seventeen years has bee
: widely circulated. yet it frequentl
happens that swarms OF them are see
in the same region at shorter interval:
This is what puzzles farmers. IN
d writer's informant explained the din
&c Guilty in this way:
If A brood appeared Oh Long Island
1T 1868. 1t will appear again i'll 1873
n Now. suppose part Of the presel
a brood on Staten Island should fly
1t he blown over to Long Island.
III would breed there and reappear
r, 1864. Then the residents OF Long !
te land would say that locusts h;
at appeared after nine years lnterva
in 1t is this tapping of broods that max
ly the mystery. There is also athirte'
of wear locust. 1t happens sometim
tie that brood of these appear at t
N same time and place with their cousl
Ell of the longer period. This occur
Vi some wears ago in Ohio and Penns.
IT, yania. Their numbers were terri
ire ing. The country people scanned t
lily WIS on their wings. and felt sure IL
he war was coming, as indeed it d
he Those broods cannot appear slmul
nd neously until thirteen times sevente
mt wears shall have elapsed since tn
ion last simultaneous advent.
RAJ Locusts always emerge from
Die ground about the first Of June, q
the last of them disappear about
first of July. The males come n
by several days, and fill the woo
md with their singing before the fema
CHI are visible. They are the only t
me ventriloquists. singing from tn
fro stomachs. The females do not 81
ak A very curious piece Of insect eI
9 to neering occurs whena pupa is abou
18th emerge into the air, in case the gro'
,ine be marshy. 1t builds a chimney.
anv rather an upright tunnel through
out air from four to six inches high.
men is built wholly from the inside,
Tere without any aperture. The mud
inc. pushed upward and outward above
ten head. Nevertheless the little Great
4 to does not as a matter of course. eme
line from the top. Ii the ground y
lies, during its labors, it seeks polnl
.Int the CHIMNEY WHtIt Tic rdA VII - "
ide. right degree Of moisture and Il
imi- makes its little round hole for G
rted When the pupa energies it hurrle
only the nearest tree and climbs out
ents a twig 1t has no time to lose.
ould translucent shell dries and CRACK
that about ten minutes. This she'll fit:
hibi- curatelv the body and legs, D
we're drawn over the latter like over
eels. The insect soon shuffies it of.
the soon as its body is exposed it begiI
tied. unfold its moist wings. These
II of wonderfully developed Ill subst;
D un- ane strength. and harden as they
1eels The whole process Of wing dew
have ment occupies less than sixty mini
I the After pairing, the females deposit
e Of eggs in the bark of tender tWlg
various trees and herbaceous pl;
They are nat known to do SO III
green's 1t is thought the gum
lting injure the projecting oylposItor
hern the prudent insect knows enough