Economic entomology for the farmer and fruit-grower : and for use as a text-book in agricultural schools and colleges . Aiwmala lucicola.— a, b, larva ; c, pupa inlarval skin ; d, e,f, adult Goldsmith beetle,Cotalpa lanigera. yields readily to any of the arsenites. The larvae live in lightsoil, feed upon the roots of grasses, and pupate in late fall, theadult forming soon after and remaining within the cast larvalskin until ready to emerge in early summer. Also found during the day on grape foliage, or flying towardit during early evening, is a large, shining, tan-yellow chafer,with
Economic entomology for the farmer and fruit-grower : and for use as a text-book in agricultural schools and colleges . Aiwmala lucicola.— a, b, larva ; c, pupa inlarval skin ; d, e,f, adult Goldsmith beetle,Cotalpa lanigera. yields readily to any of the arsenites. The larvae live in lightsoil, feed upon the roots of grasses, and pupate in late fall, theadult forming soon after and remaining within the cast larvalskin until ready to emerge in early summer. Also found during the day on grape foliage, or flying towardit during early evening, is a large, shining, tan-yellow chafer,with eight black spots, two on the thorax and six on the wing-covers. This is the Pelidnota pjindata, or spotted vine-chafer,which feeds upon the leaves, but rarely does noticeable larvae feed upon decaying roots and stumps, and I havetaken both larva and pupa out of a rotten cedar trunk. Swamp-willow in the East is the food of Cotalpa lanigera, abeetle very similar in size and shape to the preceding, but of abeautiful shining, lemon yellow, the head glittering with a goldensheen, hence known as the goldsmith beetle. Beneath it isof a burnished copper color, densely clothed with white wo
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