. The insect book [microform] : a popular account of the bees, wasps, ants, grasshoppers, flies and other North American insects exclusive of the butterflies, moths and beetles, with full life histories, tables and bibliographies. Insectes; Insects. :^ .t^\ Mf^. m: 4 K. â i-9i^\tv^^"mn'm-'i^. THH OR (Juiiiiiiy Tahauiiicc.) The insects of this important family are known as pad-flies, horse-tlies or lieer-llies. T > this ^jroup jieionp the active, stron^{- tlyin^j creatures which aim y horses to sucli an extent when one is driving alon>{ a woudtd road, espe
. The insect book [microform] : a popular account of the bees, wasps, ants, grasshoppers, flies and other North American insects exclusive of the butterflies, moths and beetles, with full life histories, tables and bibliographies. Insectes; Insects. :^ .t^\ Mf^. m: 4 K. â i-9i^\tv^^"mn'm-'i^. THH OR (Juiiiiiiy Tahauiiicc.) The insects of this important family are known as pad-flies, horse-tlies or lieer-llies. T > this ^jroup jieionp the active, stron^{- tlyin^j creatures which aim y horses to sucli an extent when one is driving alon>{ a woudtd road, especially in pine woods, and also the smaller yellowish or greenish tlies whicf. annoy forest animals, and which bite beings when in the woods. The proboscis of all of the tlies of this family is in the female sex adapted for piercing and sucking, the males, as in all of the blood- sucking tlies, incliidmg the mosquitoes, bemg harmless, and the proboscis not adapted for piercing the skin of The bites do not ap- pear to be as painful as those of mos'iuitoes or of black tiles, and apparently no poison is in- jected, but any one of these flies may be responsi- ble for the trans- fer of the bacillus of anthrax or " pus- tule," as it is called. The adults are great water ikers, and are usually nu st abundant in the vicinity ot inland ponds and streams. This has suggested to Porchinskv, the Russian entomologist, thede^irabiliiyof ;ng such ponds with kerosene, I'.i. Fig. 74.âChrysiips fugax. fA/liir Osl'orn. 1. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Howard, L. O. (Leland Ossian), 1857-1950. Toronto : W. Briggs
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