Report of the State Entomologist on Injurious and Other Insects of the State of New York (Volume 2nd 1885) - Tapa blanda
Sinopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ...inches high, an inch to an inch and a half in diameter, each of which had been formed by the pupa of a Cicada that hail emerged from the earth beneath the cellar. Finding a dark chamber, and'apparently deiring to work up to daylight, the Cicadas had taken the moist clay and of this formed pellets with which the tubes were built up. apparently with the purpose of bridging over the vacancy and ihus reaching the surface. These facts appeared to me so interei-ting that I procured a large number of the tubes, and I had the first report verified by the written testimony of the owner of the house and several other well-known citizens of Rahway. The document sent me with the tubes has remained in my possession to the present time. It is dated June, 1877, and reads as follows: "These cones were erected by the pupas of the Cicada in the cellar of a house belonging to Alonzo Jaques, Rahway, during parts of May and June, 1877. They were built in an unfloored cellar of a house constructed about eight years ago in an old orchard. The cellar was dug to about the depth of a foot in red clay, and the bottom covered by a slight layer of debris, sand, sticks, etc. The cellar was perfectly dark during the construction of the cones, the only opening being shut. The locality is a dry one, the house being situated on a rise of grourd, and about a quarter of a mile from the nearest water--a ditch dry in summer. These cones were not seen in the course of erection, but when the cellar was opened, about the time the locusts made their first appearance, the whole cellar bottom was covered by them. The tops of all were closed, but on breaking some of them the pupas were seen both in the hole in the ground and in the cone. "After the cellar had been opened...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ...inches high, an inch to an inch and a half in diameter, each of which had been formed by the pupa of a Cicada that hail emerged from the earth beneath the cellar. Finding a dark chamber, and'apparently deiring to work up to daylight, the Cicadas had taken the moist clay and of this formed pellets with which the tubes were built up. apparently with the purpose of bridging over the vacancy and ihus reaching the surface. These facts appeared to me so interei-ting that I procured a large number of the tubes, and I had the first report verified by the written testimony of the owner of the house and several other well-known citizens of Rahway. The document sent me with the tubes has remained in my possession to the present time. It is dated June, 1877, and reads as follows: "These cones were erected by the pupas of the Cicada in the cellar of a house belonging to Alonzo Jaques, Rahway, during parts of May and June, 1877. They were built in an unfloored cellar of a house constructed about eight years ago in an old orchard. The cellar was dug to about the depth of a foot in red clay, and the bottom covered by a slight layer of debris, sand, sticks, etc. The cellar was perfectly dark during the construction of the cones, the only opening being shut. The locality is a dry one, the house being situated on a rise of grourd, and about a quarter of a mile from the nearest water--a ditch dry in summer. These cones were not seen in the course of erection, but when the cellar was opened, about the time the locusts made their first appearance, the whole cellar bottom was covered by them. The tops of all were closed, but on breaking some of them the pupas were seen both in the hole in the ground and in the cone. "After the cellar had been opened...
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