. Annual report, including a report of the insects of New Jersey, 1909. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 789 come into houses at times and are not usually noticed as being different from the common species. In the larval stages the habits differ. Many, perhaps the most, are scavengers, as are the muscids; a few are parasitic, as are the Tachi- nids; quite a number feed in living vegetation, either in roots, as the onion and cab- bage maggot, or mine in leaves, as in beets. The root maggots are diffi- cult to deal with, and not all methods are equally useful in all localities. Tobacco, helle- bore, k
. Annual report, including a report of the insects of New Jersey, 1909. THE INSECTS OF NEW JERSEY. 789 come into houses at times and are not usually noticed as being different from the common species. In the larval stages the habits differ. Many, perhaps the most, are scavengers, as are the muscids; a few are parasitic, as are the Tachi- nids; quite a number feed in living vegetation, either in roots, as the onion and cab- bage maggot, or mine in leaves, as in beets. The root maggots are diffi- cult to deal with, and not all methods are equally useful in all localities. Tobacco, helle- bore, kainit, lime with car- bolic acid or turpentine have all been used as repellants or destroyers with more or less Fig. 330.—Head and scraping hooks of a root mag- got, very much enlarged. success. ' Bisulphide of carbon injected into the soil has proved useful in some cases, and so has a tarred card surrounding a plant and resting on the surface. The farmer must usually learn by experience the particular method most useful in his HYDROT/CA Desv. H. dentipes Fab. Pemberton V, 10 (Hk). H. armipes Fall. New Brunswick (Sm); Riverton V, 14, Avalon VII, 22 (.Jn); Pemberton V, 10 (CG). H. impexa Loew. Dunnfield, Del. Water Gap VII. H. metatarsata Stein. Clementon V, 3 (Hk). OPHYRA Desv. O. leucostoma Wied. Boonton VII, 19 (GG); New Brunswick VI. 1 (Sm); Westville VII, 21 DaCosta VII, 19, Shiloh IX, 1. HOMALOMYIA Bouche. H. canicularis Linn. New Brunswick VII. Burlington Co. (Sm>: Dolair III. 1. bred from nest of "Vespa germanica" (Dko). H. scalaris Fab. Del. Water Gap VII (Jn); New Brunswick (,Sm). H. incisurata Zoll. Shark River Vll. 12. H. fasciculata Loew. Delaware Water Gap 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 New Jersey state museum. [from old catalog].
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