On close analysis it is found that Orthoptera frequenting habitats involving passage • over open spaces of considerable extent, such as fields, between trees in forests, and bushes or thickets in deserts, are usually long-winged, flying species; and... Researches on North American Acridiidae - Page 21by Albert Pitts Morse - 1904 - 55 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Amos Dorsey - History - 1904 - 312 pages
...(Xiphidium in part, Odontoxiphidium) , crevices and caves (Ceuthophili, Decticinse, many Blattidse, and Gryllidae), or burrows, either of other species...in an environment of more or less dense, intricate, inlerlacing vegetal growth, 22 NORTH AMERICAN ACRIDIID^I. be it sub-alpine or sub-tropical, in forest... | |
 | Natural history - 1920 - 962 pages
...in structure to habits directly parallel with that of flightless locusts (compare also with ants and termites). "On close analysis it is found that Orthoptera...intricate, interlacing vegetal growth, be it sub-alpine or tropical, in forest or swamp — or in burrows, crevices, etc. — in short, in stations where wings... | |
 | Albert Pitts Morse - Orthoptera - 1920 - 452 pages
...in structure to habits directly parallel with that of flightless locusts (compare also with ants and termites). "On close analysis it is found that Orthoptera...intricate, interlacing vegetal growth, be it sub-alpine or tropical, in forest or swamp — or in burrows, crevices, etc. — in short, in stations where wings... | |
 | Justus Watson Folsom - Entomology - 1922 - 522 pages
...advantages. Organs unused or disadvantageous tend to dwindle and disappear; hence the loss of wings. "It is found that Orthoptera frequenting habitats...forests, and bushes or thickets in deserts, are usually long- winged, flying species; and others dwelling in an environment of more or less dense, intricate,... | |
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