. The bee-keeper's guide : or Manual of the apiary . Bee culture; Bees. suggest the name. It might well be preying mantis. These peculiar anterior legs, like the same in Phymnta erosa, are used to grasp its victims. It is reported to move with sur- prising rapidity, as it grasps its prey. Its eggs (Fig. 218) are glued to some twig, in a scale- like mass, and covered with a sort of varnish. Some of Fig. these hatched out in one of my boxes, and the depravity of these insects was manifest in the fact that those first hatched fell to and ate the others. BLISTER BEETLES. I have received from
. The bee-keeper's guide : or Manual of the apiary . Bee culture; Bees. suggest the name. It might well be preying mantis. These peculiar anterior legs, like the same in Phymnta erosa, are used to grasp its victims. It is reported to move with sur- prising rapidity, as it grasps its prey. Its eggs (Fig. 218) are glued to some twig, in a scale- like mass, and covered with a sort of varnish. Some of Fig. these hatched out in one of my boxes, and the depravity of these insects was manifest in the fact that those first hatched fell to and ate the others. BLISTER BEETLES. I have received from Mr. Rainbow, of Fall Brook, Cal- ifornia, the larvae (Fig. 219, a) of some blister 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 Cook, Albert John, 1842-1916. Chicago, Ill. : George W. York & Co.
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