. Cyclopedia of farm animals. Domestic animals; Animal products. out the inner parts of the larger ones, and black- birds, robins, crows and jays swallow the cater- pillars whole in all stages. Fully fifty species of birds are now known to feed on the different stages of the destruc- tive gipsy moth. Fly- catchers, swallows, mar- tins, swifts, and nights hawks catch mainly insects in flight. The kingbird and phcebe are among the most con- spicuous useful fly- catchers about the farm. The phcebe often nests about buildings or under bridges. It feeds on a variety of pests, among them the importe
. Cyclopedia of farm animals. Domestic animals; Animal products. out the inner parts of the larger ones, and black- birds, robins, crows and jays swallow the cater- pillars whole in all stages. Fully fifty species of birds are now known to feed on the different stages of the destruc- tive gipsy moth. Fly- catchers, swallows, mar- tins, swifts, and nights hawks catch mainly insects in flight. The kingbird and phcebe are among the most con- spicuous useful fly- catchers about the farm. The phcebe often nests about buildings or under bridges. It feeds on a variety of pests, among them the imported elm-leaf beetle, the striped cucumber beetle, cankerworms, cut-worms, brown-tail moths and gipsy moths. The kingbird is sometimes regarded as an enemy by bee-keepers, but stomach examinations show that the bees eaten are mainly drones, and the birds destroy robber flies and other insect enemies of bees as well as injurious May beetles (" June bugs"), weevils, click beetles, grasshoppers, crickets, house-flies, cattle-flies, leaf hoppers and injurious bugs and moths. As it also drives hawks and crows away from the poultry-yard, it may be considered one of the farmer's best allies. Swallows are valuable everywhere. The com- mon barn swallow and the cliff (or eaves) swal- low, which find nesting-places either in or on buildings, undoubtedly save the farmer many dol- lars by destroying insects that would otherwise greatly decrease his grass crop. The purple mar- tin takes many house-flies, horse-flies and injurious garden insects. The thrushes feed much on the ground-frequent- ing insects in spring and fall, but subsist largely on fruit (particularly wild fruit) during the sum- mer. The American robin is the most useful of all American thrushes, for it has become half-domes- ticated about the farm and feeds mainly in culti- vated grounds, taking ground-beetles, cutworms and white grubs in numbers that possibly no other. Fig. 156. Please note that these images
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