. The bee-keeper's guide : or Manual of the apiary . Bee culture; Bees. 434 Tachina Plies. the bees. One of the largest and most beautiful of these (Fig. 213) is Anax Junius. It has a wide range in the United States, North and South, and everywhere preys u^;on the bees. TACHINA FLY. From descriptions which I have received, I feel certain that there is a two-winged fly, probably of the genus Tachina (Fig. 214), that works on bees. I have never seen these, though I have repeatedly requested those who Fig. have to send them to me. My friend, J. L. Davis, put some sick looking bees into a ca
. The bee-keeper's guide : or Manual of the apiary . Bee culture; Bees. 434 Tachina Plies. the bees. One of the largest and most beautiful of these (Fig. 213) is Anax Junius. It has a wide range in the United States, North and South, and everywhere preys u^;on the bees. TACHINA FLY. From descriptions which I have received, I feel certain that there is a two-winged fly, probably of the genus Tachina (Fig. 214), that works on bees. I have never seen these, though I have repeatedly requested those who Fig. have to send them to me. My friend, J. L. Davis, put some sick looking bees into a cage, and hatched the flies which he told me looked not unlike a small house fly. It is the habit of these flies, which belong to the same family as our house flies, which they much resemble, to lav their eggs on other insects. Their young, upon hatching, bur- row into the insect that is being victimized, and grow by eating it. It would be diflScult to cope with this evil should it become of great magnitude. We may well hope that this habit of eating bees is an exceptional one with it. The affected bees will be found dead at early dawn in front of the hives. BEE LOUSE BRAULA CCECA, NITSCH. This louse (Fig. 215) is a wingless Dipteron, and one of the uniques among insects. It is a blind, spider-like parasite, and serves as a very good connecting link between insects and spiders, or, still better, between the Diptera. 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.
Size: 1890px × 1322px
Photo credit: © Central Historic Books / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bo, bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, booksubjectbees, bookyear1894
