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Verschiedene einheimische Grillen-Arten
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Infects XLIX. Vol. VI. No. 25., SEVERAL SPECIES OF INDIGENOUS CRICKETS., Fig. 1. 2. 3. The house-cricket. (Gryllus domesticus.), 1 he house-cricket likes best to dwell with the men in the hake - arid brew-houfes, where it lives in nooks, being known by the Thrill fouud, it produces by the friction of the ftvong underwings. It feeds upon meal, bread, lard etc. The female lays little whitifh eggs, from which after ten or twelve days the young crickets are flipping out. being at firfl winglefs. After they have feveral times caft the fkin, one beholds the fhea'ths of the wings Fig.. 2.) We fee them in their natural greatnel's Fig. 1. and 3. The skinned underwings are widely juttiDg over the upper ones, and are provided with a horny point., Fig. 4. 5. The field-cricket. (Gryllus campestris.), The field-cricket lives in the fields and woods, being cistinguilVd from the iorrner by the darker colour and coarfer Fig. ure, and feeding on littie infects and roots. Like the houfe cricket it excites with the wings ihe chirping found, that in fun,mer evenings is frequently heard in the fields., Fig. 6. 7. The mole-cricket. (Gryllus gryllotalpa.), The mole-cricket, which we fee Fig.. h. represented as nymph, and Fig.. 7. in its full growth, is the largeft kind of crickets in Germany, and a noxious infect. With its ftrong mole- like fore-feet it digs eafy pal'faget ihrough the furface of the earth, gnawing all the tender roots of the plants. It has finali horny upperwings, and large thin underwings, but of which it leldoni makes ule.
