. The American entomologist and botanist. benefeial. It doubtless infests some wonn whichfeeds on the of your apple trees, and as has sent-us some of the same cocoons, takenlikewise from your orchard, it seems to be quite com-mon with you. It would interest us to know upon whatparticular worm it feeds. Tbe Pigreon Xreniex in Apyfle—Joriatltnii Hag-gins, Woodhuni, Ills.—The large four-winged fly aboutIJo inch in length, with a black and rust-coloredcylindrical body of the size of a common lead-pencil,and with a stout piercer at extremity, is a $ PigeonTremex ( columia,
. The American entomologist and botanist. benefeial. It doubtless infests some wonn whichfeeds on the of your apple trees, and as has sent-us some of the same cocoons, takenlikewise from your orchard, it seems to be quite com-mon with you. It would interest us to know upon whatparticular worm it feeds. Tbe Pigreon Xreniex in Apyfle—Joriatltnii Hag-gins, Woodhuni, Ills.—The large four-winged fly aboutIJo inch in length, with a black and rust-coloredcylindrical body of the size of a common lead-pencil,and with a stout piercer at extremity, is a $ PigeonTremex ( columia, Linn.) Your finding herpiercing an apple tree is a new fact, for though tliisinsect is well known to attack oak and elm trees, it hasnot hei etofore been recorded as occurring in apple Lunate Rhysa—that large Ichneumon fiy figuredon the left of our cover—seeks the larva of the Tremexin its hidden retreat, and by means of her long oviposi-positor, deposits an egg in its body, which hatches outand destroys the
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