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INDEX


  • Seventeen-year locust, see Periodical cicada
  • Shield-bearers, 54
  • Sleeping sickness, 349
  • Slender meadow grasshopper, 54
  • Snowy tree cricket, 65
    antennal marks, 66
    musical instruments, 57
    song, 66
  • Soldiers of termites, 131
  • Soma, 104, 304
  • Somatic cells, 104
  • Song of insects, 33, 34
    of cicada, 210-212
    crickets, 58, 60, 62-70
    grasshoppers, 30, 31
    katydids, 39, 41, 42, 43, 44, 47, 48, 49, 51, 53, 54
  • Spiracles, 13, 114
  • Spirochetes, 340
  • Stagmomantis carolina, 73
  • Stimulus, 106
  • Stomach, 109
  • Stridulation, 33
  • Striped ground cricket, 58-60
    song, 58, 59
  • Syrphid flies, 177
    larvae feeding on aphids, 176, 177
  • Sword-bearing conehead, 50
    song, 51

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  • Tabanidac, 320
  • Tent caterpillar, 262
    behavior on leafless tree, 278, 279
    cocoon, 282
    egg, 263
    egg mass, 263, 264
    epidermis, 295
    fat-body, 292
    feeding habits, 270 272 273, 276
  • Tent caterpillar, general external form, 285, 286
    head, 284, 285
    internal organs, 289-291
    jaws, 286
    jumping from trees, 280, 281
    manner of feeding, 277
    metamorphosis, 293
    molts, 275
    moth, 305
    newly-hatched, 265
    prepupal stage, 295
    propupa, 296, 297
    pupa, 298
    silk glands, 286
    press, 288
    spinneret, 286
    spinning cocoon, 282, 283
    structure and physiology, 283
    tents, 270
    weaving tent, 272, 273
    young, 262
    in egg, 312, 313
  • Termites, 125
  • Âme collective, 143
    castes, 131, 141, 142
    community life, 134
    destruction by, 129
    digestion of cellulose, 137
    egg laying, 150, 151
    food exchange, 144
    fungus grown for food, 148
    king, 134
    life history, 136-141
    males and females, 133
    nests aboveground, 148
    in trees, 148
    underground, 147
    queen, 134, 149
    Reticulitermes, 136
    short-winged form, 133, 140
    soldiers, 131
    tropical termites, 146
    winged form, 133

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