Economic entomology for the farmer and the fruit grower, and for use as a text-book in agricultural schools and colleges; economicentomolo00smit Year: 1906 rilE INSECT WORLD. 77 egg-sacs of Lycosid or running spiders. The larva, that succeeds, enters the sac and begins feeding upon the eggs, gradually losing its active form and becoming clumsy and grul>-like. The ])upa forms within the larval skin, and after midsummer the adult appears. Very curious creatures are the Pano^pidce, or 'scorpion- flies,' usually ranked as an order under the term Mccoptera. They have netted wings similar to bu
Economic entomology for the farmer and the fruit grower, and for use as a text-book in agricultural schools and colleges; economicentomolo00smit Year: 1906 rilE INSECT WORLD. 77 egg-sacs of Lycosid or running spiders. The larva, that succeeds, enters the sac and begins feeding upon the eggs, gradually losing its active form and becoming clumsy and grul>-like. The ])upa forms within the larval skin, and after midsummer the adult appears. Very curious creatures are the Pano^pidce, or 'scorpion- flies,' usually ranked as an order under the term Mccoptera. They have netted wings similar to but more robust than the ' lace-wings,' but have the mouth prolonged into a beak, at the end of which the biting parts are situated. In the genus Pan- orpa the males have a pair of huge anal forceps, curved up some- FiG. 42. Fig. 43. Mantispa species.—Showing the legs and body from the side.
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