. 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. â Ill If. Ml ill; - » \l: 1. SOLDIER FLIES (Family Stiatiomyiidie.) There are certiiin rather broad, but rather flat-bodied flies of divers structure, but separated Irotn other flies by the characters given in the table, which are not especially remarkable in their appearance except in -ome aberrant forms, and which are not especially numerous or
. 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. â Ill If. Ml ill; - » \l: 1. SOLDIER FLIES (Family Stiatiomyiidie.) There are certiiin rather broad, but rather flat-bodied flies of divers structure, but separated Irotn other flies by the characters given in the table, which are not especially remarkable in their appearance except in -ome aberrant forms, and which are not especially numerous or notable, which are grouped together in this family. Comstock has called them the -soldier flies," on account of bright colored stripes with which some species are marked. They are also dark colored and metallic and are not or bristly. -Some of the brightly ones look like Syrphus flies and .some of them have a superflcial resemblance to some of the wasps. The wings are usually clear, but are sometimes smoky or brown. They are found generally in marshy on flowers and vegetation, and their larvx live in the water, in the earth, in moss, in decaying wood, and in ants' nests, and there are observations on record which seem to show that the larva; of the curious American genus Hermetia may live in bee hiv^ s, and in the nests of wild bees. At all events. H. illiiit'iii has been seen hovering about bee hives and thrusting its eggs through cracks in the hives. The aquatic species are not con- fined to fresh water, but at least one is known to inhabit salt v. ater. and one form lives in some of the alkaline lakes of the western states. -Some of the are carnivorous, while others feed upon decaying vegetable matter. The .iquatic foims feed upon very small aquatic organisms. The eggs are laid in overlapping layers upon the under sides of the leaves of plants, or they are laid upon the surface of the water. The larva; are elongate poin
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