Guide to the study of insects and a treatise on those injurious and beneficial to crops, for the use of colleges, farm-schools, and agriculturists . on-ions, destrojs themaggots. The rig. .3:52. Seed-corn Maggot, the larva of Antliomyia zeai Riley (Fig. 344,p. 419, «, larva; 6, puparium ; c, kernels eaten), destroj^s,in New Jersey, the kernels of spiouted corn before it comes Cabbage maggot, the larva of A. brassicce Bouche, a com-mon fly in Europe, has been found in Michigan to be injuriousto the cabbage. (Riley.) The hairy maggots of Homalomyiacunicularis live in rotten turnips. (Harr
Guide to the study of insects and a treatise on those injurious and beneficial to crops, for the use of colleges, farm-schools, and agriculturists . on-ions, destrojs themaggots. The rig. .3:52. Seed-corn Maggot, the larva of Antliomyia zeai Riley (Fig. 344,p. 419, «, larva; 6, puparium ; c, kernels eaten), destroj^s,in New Jersey, the kernels of spiouted corn before it comes Cabbage maggot, the larva of A. brassicce Bouche, a com-mon fly in Europe, has been found in Michigan to be injuriousto the cabbage. (Riley.) The hairy maggots of Homalomyiacunicularis live in rotten turnips. (Harris.) The puparium(Plate 3, fig. 5, 5 a) of another species has been found by W. Putnam iu the nests of the humble bee. In Ortalis the front is quite prominent, the chpeus is greatlydeveloped, the opening of the mouth wide, and the proboscismuch thickened. This genus comprises variou-sl^ banded andspotted flies, which may be seen walking along leaves vibratingtheir wings. They feed on the loaves, and afterwards thepulpy fruit of the cherry, olive and orange. Anotlior Onion-fly, discovered by Dr. Shinier in Illinois, is the Ortalis flexa. 412 DIPTERA.
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