. An encyclopædia of gardening; . furnished a remarkable insect, which assists man in the destruction of the caterpillar, theIchneumon nuinifestator, L. {jig. 466.) ITie insects of this genus, Samouelle observes, lay their eggs in the bodiesof caterpillars or pupae, whichare there hatched ; the larvae,have no feet; they are softand cylindrical, and feed onthe substance of the caterpil-lar, which never turns to aperfect insect, while the larvaeof the ichneumon spin them-selves a silky web, and changeinto a jwpa incompleta, andin a few days the fly ap-pears. {Entomologists Com-j)anioii) 6^3.) An

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. An encyclopædia of gardening; . furnished a remarkable insect, which assists man in the destruction of the caterpillar, theIchneumon nuinifestator, L. {jig. 466.) ITie insects of this genus, Samouelle observes, lay their eggs in the bodiesof caterpillars or pupae, whichare there hatched ; the larvae,have no feet; they are softand cylindrical, and feed onthe substance of the caterpil-lar, which never turns to aperfect insect, while the larvaeof the ichneumon spin them-selves a silky web, and changeinto a jwpa incompleta, andin a few days the fly ap-pears. {Entomologists Com-j)anioii) 6^3.) Ante,266l.

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