Clear weather within a day or two after the thick dog-days. The nights have been cooler of late, but the heat of the sun by day has been more local and palpable.
See one of the shrilling green alder locusts on the under side of a grape leaf. Its body is about three quarters of an inch or less in length; antennae and all, two inches. Its wings are at first perpendicular above its shoulders, it apparently having just ceased shrilling, transparent, with lines crossing them.
H. D. Thoreau, Journal, August 27, 1860
One of the shrilling green alder locusts on the under side of a grape leaf. See August 21, 1853 ("Saw one of those light-green locusts about three quarters of an inch long on a currant leaf in the garden. "); August 23, 1856 ("On this Lespedeza Stuvei, a green locust an inch and three quarters long"); September 6, 1857 ("I see one of those peculiarly green locusts with long and slender legs on a grass stem, which are often concealed by their color.")
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