. The insect book [microform] : a popular account of the bees, wasps, ants, grasshoppers, flies and other North American insects exclusive of the butterflies, moths and beetles, with full life histories, tables and bibliographies. Insectes; Insects. nil v\ FUai infi-stin;{ tills iind Jon^;, b'th k'mestic wlkl. upim thi- li^vpliiin lihni'uinon .iiid liu iiiiiiiion Kuropfaii ( oli' tlu- striped the cuiiiiiioii , \W , .mJ it also hitt-s human iMii^is. Ilu'IixhI oI Ilea brvx has been the subject of some (in. The oM statement that the female Ilea ilisK'TKi&
. The insect book [microform] : a popular account of the bees, wasps, ants, grasshoppers, flies and other North American insects exclusive of the butterflies, moths and beetles, with full life histories, tables and bibliographies. Insectes; Insects. nil v\ FUai infi-stin;{ tills iind Jon^;, b'th k'mestic wlkl. upim thi- li^vpliiin lihni'uinon .iiid liu iiiiiiiion Kuropfaii ( oli' tlu- striped the cuiiiiiioii , \W , .mJ it also hitt-s human iMii^is. Ilu'IixhI oI Ilea brvx has been the subject of some (in. The oM statement that the female Ilea ilisK'TKi"!* drops iiiMuod upo; winch her youn^' feed, seems true only to a small decree. ilheiie, the lamous breHi-h entumoloKist. at first believed that blood was necessary for the nouiiNhment of the larva;, the reddish colored contents of the diijestive trart making him think so, imt he found that they would lloiirish and com- plete their iiKtamorphoses â r "TT*v- in sweepin^js in which there was no trace of blood. He concluded that all that has been said about P. irritMi'^ (the human (lea of liurope) nourishim,' its younj,' on dried blood is verv problematic. Mr. W. J. Simmons found Ilea lar- jV ' yV v;l' feeding upon a dust ^^ \A,'''^-'~**vS», composed of fragments of cuticle, hairs, fibers, and pilii-;:- of dried blood, the List being probably the of the The writer has fed them suc- cessfully upon moist bread crumbs, and it is reasonably certain that they will feed upon the dust or minute of almost any kind of organic matter. The minute, delicate, whitish eggs hati h into slender, worm- like larvx. which, when full-grown, spin delicate cocoons, and transform to pupa-, from which issue the adults. more than ino species are known, of which about 30 have been found in the United States. In the recent important and alarming indictments of certain species of insects as carriers and transmitters of certain human diseases, fle
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