. Elementary entomology . Fig. 151. Phymaia wolfii. (7, b, side and back views ; f, front leg ; </, beak. (After Riley, United .States Department of Agriculture) around barns and sheds, where they are said to rob spiders' webs of their prey. The damsel-bugs {Nabidae) frequent flowers and vegetation, feeding on any small insects they may conquer. The blond damsel-bug {Coriscns ferns) is a light yellowish color, with numerous brown dots, and is often taken in sweeping grass with a net. The other most common species, the black damsel-bug {Coriscns snbcole- optrains), receives its specific name
. Elementary entomology . Fig. 151. Phymaia wolfii. (7, b, side and back views ; f, front leg ; </, beak. (After Riley, United .States Department of Agriculture) around barns and sheds, where they are said to rob spiders' webs of their prey. The damsel-bugs {Nabidae) frequent flowers and vegetation, feeding on any small insects they may conquer. The blond damsel-bug {Coriscns ferns) is a light yellowish color, with numerous brown dots, and is often taken in sweeping grass with a net. The other most common species, the black damsel-bug {Coriscns snbcole- optrains), receives its specific name from the fact that at first glance it closely resembles a beetle, the wings being mere rudiments and the body shin- ing black, with yellowish legs. A single species {Phyviata tvolfii) of the ambush-bugs {P/iyinati- dae) is found very commonly lurking in the flowers of the golden- rod. It is yellowish or greenish in color, with a broad black band across the abdomen, and the front legs are strongly developed for grasping, so that it is able to overpower much larger insects. The bedbug and its relatives the flower-bugs {AcaniJiidac) are also predacious. The former is too well known to need description, and an- other similar wingless form attacks swallows, bats, pigeons, etc. The flower-bugs have well-developed wings and lurk in blossoms, where they at- tack small insects. The stink-bugs, or shield-shaped bugs (^Pentatomidae), are a large fam- ily readily distinguished by their shape, and, with two or three nearly related but small and unimportant families, may be distinguished from other terrestrial Heteroptera by having antennae of five seg- ments instead of four. The term "stink-bug" is not definite, for many other families have very characteristic " buggy " odors, but as these insects frequently attack berries, which retain their odor, we have become better acquainted with this disagreeable characteristic
Size: 2861px × 1747px
Photo credit: © The Bookworm Collection / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1, booksubjectentomology, bookyear1912
