. The bee-keeper's guide : or Manual of the apiary . Bee culture; Bees. Blister-Beetle and Larmr.—Original. insects undergo what M. Faher styles hyper-metamorphosis, as the larva appears in four different forms instead of one. Two of these forms show in the figure. The Spanish-fly— Cantharides of the shops—is an allied insect. Some of our common blister-beetles are very destructive to plants. Girard, in his excellent work on bees, gives illustrations of all the forms of this insect. WASPS. I have never seen bees injured by wasps. In the South, as iu Furope, we hear of such depredations. I have
. The bee-keeper's guide : or Manual of the apiary . Bee culture; Bees. Blister-Beetle and Larmr.—Original. insects undergo what M. Faher styles hyper-metamorphosis, as the larva appears in four different forms instead of one. Two of these forms show in the figure. The Spanish-fly— Cantharides of the shops—is an allied insect. Some of our common blister-beetles are very destructive to plants. Girard, in his excellent work on bees, gives illustrations of all the forms of this insect. WASPS. I have never seen bees injured by wasps. In the South, as iu Furope, we hear of such depredations. I have received wasps, sent by our Southern brothers, which were caught destroying bees. The wasp sent me is the large, handsome Stizus speciosus, Drury. It is black, with its abdomen imper- fectly ringed with yellow. The wasps are very predaceous, and do immense benefit by capturing and eating our insect pests. I have seen wasps carry ofE " currant worms " with-a celerity that was most 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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