. Economic entomology. Beneficial insects; Insect pests; Thysanura. Tyrogflyphus rostro-serratus, under-side. Copied Ditto, side view. Copied from Megnin's figure, from Megnin's figure. About size of cheese-mite. when they find themselves in conditions favourable for their development. The proof that these creatures are the very active although indirect agents of this putrid decomposition, is that mushrooms on which they have been placed are, in less than forty-eight hours, reduced to a state of black and deliquescent putrescence, on which myriads of these animalcules swarm; while other mushro
. Economic entomology. Beneficial insects; Insect pests; Thysanura. Tyrogflyphus rostro-serratus, under-side. Copied Ditto, side view. Copied from Megnin's figure, from Megnin's figure. About size of cheese-mite. when they find themselves in conditions favourable for their development. The proof that these creatures are the very active although indirect agents of this putrid decomposition, is that mushrooms on which they have been placed are, in less than forty-eight hours, reduced to a state of black and deliquescent putrescence, on which myriads of these animalcules swarm; while other mushrooms in the identically same condition, which have not been subjected to that inoculation, and which have been iso- lated from the spoiled mushrooms, dry up or become mouldy, and take from eight days to a fortnight to decompose spontaneously. The Tyroglyphus rostro-serratus is a sociable Acarid. It is always, in great troops, in which all the ages are represented, that it lives on the mushrooms in course of decomposition. It has a life in some sort amphibian; for from the moment when the mush- room begins to decay, to take a brown colour and become humid, it is in the stratum of liquid half a millimetre in depth which covers the surface of the fungus that the Tyroglyphi in question move about completely bathed in this liquid, and in the midst of. 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 Murray, Andrew, 1812-1878. [London] Chapman and Hall
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