Guide to the study of insects and a treatise on those injurious and beneficial to crops, for the use of colleges, farm-schools, and agriculturists . Fig. 437. CUPESID^. 469 moderate in length and broadly dilated. Thanasimus differsin the body being hairy, while the jDosterior tarsi are longerand scarcely dilated. The long narrow slender pink larvae canbe found under the bark of dead pine trees where thc}^ probablyprey upon the larvae of Hylurgus and Hylobius. The larvaeof Clerus are of a beautiful red color. The European Clemsalvearius infests the nests of the Mason-bees, Osmia and Meg-achile.
Guide to the study of insects and a treatise on those injurious and beneficial to crops, for the use of colleges, farm-schools, and agriculturists . Fig. 437. CUPESID^. 469 moderate in length and broadly dilated. Thanasimus differsin the body being hairy, while the jDosterior tarsi are longerand scarcely dilated. The long narrow slender pink larvae canbe found under the bark of dead pine trees where thc}^ probablyprey upon the larvae of Hylurgus and Hylobius. The larvaeof Clerus are of a beautiful red color. The European Clemsalvearius infests the nests of the Mason-bees, Osmia and Meg-achile. The larva when hatched, first devours the grub ofthe bee in the cell in which it is born and then proceeds fromcell to cell, preying upon the inhabitant of each until arrivedat maturity. It is in this situation, also, that it undergoes itschanges in a small cocoon, which it has })reviousl3 constructed,making its escape from the nest in the beetle state, where thehardness of its covering sufficiently defends it from the stingsof the bees. (Westwood.) Lymexylidve Leach. This small group, chiefly interestingas containing a genus which has prove
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