Half hours with insects . LuminousWire Worm Packaki>.] INSECTS OF THE GARDEN. 29 parent that the air vessels and viscera can be seen throughit, and though it has three pairs of rather long legs, it is so Fig. May Beetle ami young. gross and unwieldy that it lies flat on its side when dug o;itof its retreat in the soil. In this state the grub lives three j-ears. The series ofchanges the insect passes through in its whole existence isas follows : in the months of May or June the yig. pair, and the females lay from forty tofifty eggs in loose dirt below the eggs,
Half hours with insects . LuminousWire Worm Packaki>.] INSECTS OF THE GARDEN. 29 parent that the air vessels and viscera can be seen throughit, and though it has three pairs of rather long legs, it is so Fig. May Beetle ami young. gross and unwieldy that it lies flat on its side when dug o;itof its retreat in the soil. In this state the grub lives three j-ears. The series ofchanges the insect passes through in its whole existence isas follows : in the months of May or June the yig. pair, and the females lay from forty tofifty eggs in loose dirt below the eggs, according to Mr. Riley, hatch inthe course of a month, and he adds that thegrubs growing .slowly, do not attain full sizetill the early spring of the tliird year, when theyconstruct : ovoid chamber lined with a gela-tinous fluid. This fluid hardens, we may add,forming a glazed inner wall. The chrysalis,or pupa (Fig. 19), may be found in these cells about sixinches under the surface in May, and rarely in the autumn. 29
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