Instructions for coloring the insects:<\/strong><\/p>\nDirections for coloring-. Body black, with a dark
\ngreen band just back of the head, and two round
\nwhite spots on the first ring- or segment of the
\nabdomen. The eyes, legs and antennas are green.
\nThe veins of the wings are green near the tody,
\ngradually shading into black at the tips. The
\nwings are transparent. The wasp, which is carry
\ning off a dead harvest fly, is brown-the color of
\nbronze. The pupa or young harvest fly in the tree
\nis brown also. The tree trunk is dark brown; the
\ngrass green.<\/p>\n
The harvest fly, or cicada, often incorrectly called
\nlocust is usually the herald of hot weather. He
\ncomes out in August, and the hotter the day the
\nmore energetically he sings. He is own cousin to
\nthe seventeen-year cicada, and it takes him two
\nyears to reach his growth. He begins life as a
\nUny egg bidden away by his mother under the
\nbark of sum.- tree. Who, he hatches out a tiny
\ngrub, he begins eating Into his surroundings and
\noften does much damage. Soon he changes to a
\npupa, and falls to the ground, i” which he imme
\ndiately buries himself. Here he remains for two<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today I was searching old news papers for cicada information, and I came across a gem from the past. One of the papers (New-York tribune. (New York [N.Y.]) September 21, 1902, Image 43) I found features an illustration of a cicada being carried off by a cicada killer wasp. The illustration appeared in the kids […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cicada-killer-wasps","category-papers-and-documents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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