Leafhoppers

See, look through the lens.

betty laughed oh aren't they funny the eyes are so big and so far apart and the lines on their heads make them look as if they were gazing through heavy bowed spectacles said mrs reece There is a very wise man, and his name is Mr Comstock, who says that nature must have been in a joking mood when she made these little tree and leaf hoppers.

They are so impish and knowing-looking.

Ah, they are the naughty brownies of the insect world.

Then, with a tube-like lower lip, they suck up the sap.

They also make slits in the twigs in which to lay their eggs.

in the following spring the eggs hatch and there is a fresh supply of tree hoppers ready to begin the mischief their parents left off only when they died and what is the difference between the leaf hoppers and the tree hoppers asked mr reece not much they are cousins cousins in naughtiness the leaf hoppers are a great nuisance every year they destroy from one-fourth to one-fifth of the grass that springs up they also suck the sap of the rose the grape-vine and of many grains these sturdy fellows live during the winter by hiding under the rubbish in the fields and vineyards ready when the warm spring does come to begin their naughty work what makes a little fellow like this able to do so much damage asked jimmy who had come in his hands all stained with chemicals well it is well covered by this horny substance called chitin and then it is very active You see, the chitin acts both as armour plate for the soft parts and also as a firm support to the many muscles.

As many as 2,000 separate tiny muscles have been counted in a certain caterpillar.

Wednesday's was called "Video: Your Favorite Summer Fly Fishing Bugs" in which I reviewed "Terrestrial Fishing" by Ed Koch, a 1990 publication from Stackpole.

This is the subtitle, "The History and Development of the Jassid, Beetle, Cricket, Hopper, Ant, and Inchworm on Pennsylvania's Legendary LeTorte".

So if you know me and Casting Across, you know that the LeTorte holds a special place in my heart, and as you've probably heard from the last 10 minutes, as do terrestrials.

So this is a tremendous book.