. Marvels of insect life [microform] : a popular account of structure and habit. Insects; Insectes. I20 Marvels of Insect Life. A somewlml similar story is told of an American bootlo nam., « food in tlK. ,rnb sta,.. consists of th. buried ..««s o, th. ' 'f V >;."t-" ; »;' ; and lifc-historv- of our bntlc;' as clunda ..l bv )r, t. A. lapm, , is in mud, lil<c it, mal<inH tor flu- cliara, tor of its food ;,., waspsdonot till tlicir .lIIs .,.1, hoiuv as <lo , but ,d tluur ^rubs up,,,, partlv d
. Marvels of insect life [microform] : a popular account of structure and habit. Insects; Insectes. I20 Marvels of Insect Life. A somewlml similar story is told of an American bootlo nam., « food in tlK. ,rnb sta,.. consists of th. buried ..««s o, th. ' 'f V >;."t-" ; »;' ; and lifc-historv- of our bntlc;' as clunda ..l bv )r, t. A. lapm, , is in mud, lil<c it, mal<inH tor flu- cliara, tor of its food ;,., waspsdonot till tlicir .lIIs .,.1, hoiuv as <lo , but ,d tluur ^rubs up,,,, partlv d Kcstcd Insert food from tlu- mouths of tlâ- workers. Ihc wasp-nest be, tl, wa^lon^^nown to pass its larval stages in the wasp ,ells to Ix- parasi ,e up,, , wasp-Krubs, but nothing delinit,- was known as to its , n. 1 1870 when Dr. Chapman published the results of his patu-nt obsiTVatmns. It â a^end,'r b,vtleabout half liii imli lon«, of a bluish-blaek "'';:;;^-;f^:^;:;;"l a p,iint bihind, leavii,,^ a wide (jap betwnii them, much as in tlâ- ease of the oil-beetl,-. But the <,il-beetli'- \\;-eovers over i,,, wings, and are them- selves soldered to- P'ther at the base so that thev are n,,t movi'able. Thi' femak' wasp-nest beetle is believed to ,leposit her eggs in spring or sum- mer near th,- entran, i- holes to the under- ground nests of file common wasp and tlu- ,'(]uaily ommon di-r- man wasp.* They hatch into little cn-a- turcs a fiftieth of an ; inch long, and miuh like the triungulin ot the oil-beetle, black in colour. The two or three claws of the feet are ^''PPorte,! bv a large transparent sucker, and there is a similar sucker on the last «'K"}⢠" f hind-bodv. " The little animal fre.,ucntly stood up on this and pawed thd « t its feet as if in search of some fresli obj,-ct to lay hold of. I'ach segment ol th, hind-bort spine, which points backwards. This-little cr,-ature is sâppos,.d to mak,
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