The Insect Folk

by Margaret Warner Morley

Now you shall have a list of the Orthoptera that will help you to remember them.

If we can group together things that are like each other, it is easier to remember them.

Order Orthoptera.
Running Orthoptera.
Cockroaches, Croton Bugs.
Grasping Orthoptera.
Praying Mantis.
Walking Orthoptera.
Walking Sticks.
Jumping Orthoptera.
Shorthorned Grasshoppers, or Locusts.
Longhorned, or Meadow, Grasshoppers.
Crickets.

There are a great many species of Orthoptera in the world, and we have seen but a very few of them.

But I can tell you, we feel a little better acquainted with you orthopterous fellows than we did.

The dragon fly says we have not given him a place.

But, dear dragon fly, you belong to another family. You are not an orthopterous insect.

Your order is called the Odo-na-ta.

The wings of the Odonata are very different from those of the Orthoptera.