. 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. THE GRASS STEM FLIES (I. mily Oscinuiie.) Th«e are httle flies, either .nd shining or yellowish in color, and are more or less stout-bodled. The Lirv^c broed in the stems of grasses or are found in decaying material; some live m the burrows or cavities in made by msects while a few feed on the egK shells and cast ski
. 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. THE GRASS STEM FLIES (I. mily Oscinuiie.) Th«e are httle flies, either .nd shining or yellowish in color, and are more or less stout-bodled. The Lirv^c broed in the stems of grasses or are found in decaying material; some live m the burrows or cavities in made by msects while a few feed on the egK shells and cast skins of. -llippeUl insects. A'-'o;«v{J AmcTicava feeds in the stems of wheat and rye, and sometimes does considerable damage; the larva of Chlorcps gramith-a lives in a gall-like swelling on grass stems, :ind the larva of Chlorops assimilis mines the leaves of sugar beet. One of the commonest of these tlies in ihis country is a little scavenger known as Gaitrjx aiichora. vhich feeds upon ail sorts of dead animal matter, such .is .he ompty egg shells of other insects, the cast-off skins a caterpillars'and chrvsalids, and spiders' eggs. 1 he little tlies of the genus Hippelates are )tf I i r -a ¥. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Howard, L. O. (Leland Ossian), 1857-1950. Toronto : W. Briggs
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