Then the eggs are guided down through the long ovipositor to the place prepared for them, and fastened there by a gummy substance.
Only the female grasshoppers have the long, sword-shaped ovipositor.
The ovipositor of the locust is not long and sword-like.
It is short, but it is strong and sharp, and you remember how the locust uses it to dig with.
Yes, indeed, Mollie, there are a great many species of locusts and grasshoppers, and some of them are very beautiful.
In hot countries they sometimes grow to an enormous size.
May is asking why they make molasses.
No, Ned, of course it isn't molasses. Children call it molasses because it looks like it.
Now, May, where does it make its molasses?