Ontario Sessional Papers, 1871-72, . 35 Victoria. Sessional Papers (No. 5). A. 1871-2 or click-beetles from their possession of the singular power of springing up into the air,when laid upon their backs, and thus recovering their proper position. The wheat wire-norm, with which we are now more especially concerned, has long beenknown to farmers from the havoc it has frequently wrought in their fields of grain; it is onlyrecently, however, that its natural history has been traced out. For the following account ofits larval and pupal stages we are indebted to an article in the Canadian En
Ontario Sessional Papers, 1871-72, . 35 Victoria. Sessional Papers (No. 5). A. 1871-2 or click-beetles from their possession of the singular power of springing up into the air,when laid upon their backs, and thus recovering their proper position. The wheat wire-norm, with which we are now more especially concerned, has long beenknown to farmers from the havoc it has frequently wrought in their fields of grain; it is onlyrecently, however, that its natural history has been traced out. For the following account ofits larval and pupal stages we are indebted to an article in the Canadian Entomologist (, p. 2) by Mr. Pettit, a very careful and accurate observer. He relates as follows:— In the fall of the year 1870, so unusual an amount of damage was inflicted upon thewheat crops in this vicinity by this wire-worm that I was led to try and breed it to the perfectstate, with a view to ascertaining what species it was the larva of. By digging about the .roots of the wheat plants, I obtained about a dozen specimens, whic
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