. [Articles about birds from National geographic magazine]. Birds. THIS IS THE FLY THAT LAID THE EGG, THAT PRODUCED THE KILLER, THAT LIVED THE LIFE THAT THE CAMERA CAUGHT Exhibit B in ttie dual mystery is "Smithi" (Ocnaea smithi), the villain in "The Case of the Cello- phane Sheath" (page 826). Like an insect warplane, the adult female of this fly cruises over the countryside firing burst after burst of microscopic eggs. When the tiny larvae hatch out on the ground, many of them miraculously find their way into nests of trapdoor A BATTALION OF MINUTE SMITHI LARVAE
. [Articles about birds from National geographic magazine]. Birds. THIS IS THE FLY THAT LAID THE EGG, THAT PRODUCED THE KILLER, THAT LIVED THE LIFE THAT THE CAMERA CAUGHT Exhibit B in ttie dual mystery is "Smithi" (Ocnaea smithi), the villain in "The Case of the Cello- phane Sheath" (page 826). Like an insect warplane, the adult female of this fly cruises over the countryside firing burst after burst of microscopic eggs. When the tiny larvae hatch out on the ground, many of them miraculously find their way into nests of trapdoor A BATTALION OF MINUTE SMITHI LARVAE BURROW INTO A SPIDEr's LEG The author discovered that the crawling marauders descended the clay tube to bore into the host, tightly sealed in her home. Thev easilv made their way down through the crevices around the trapdoor and even through the silken mesh of the seal. In this laboratory experiment so many larvae were present that they attacked the spider's legs as well as the 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 Washington, D. C. : National Geographic Society
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