. Economic entomology for the . Pepsis formosus, tarantula-hawk. creted by them for preserving from decay and in a condition suitable as food for their young the larvae, spiders, and other insects upon which they feed. They sting their prey very care- fully, in such a way as to paralyze and render it motionless, while yet it does not die ; and the larvae, when they hatch, begin feeding very carefully, so as not to kill their host until they them- selves are sufficiently developed. The poison introduced seems . to simply suspend life, or rather allows it to go on without a waste of tis
. Economic entomology for the . Pepsis formosus, tarantula-hawk. creted by them for preserving from decay and in a condition suitable as food for their young the larvae, spiders, and other insects upon which they feed. They sting their prey very care- fully, in such a way as to paralyze and render it motionless, while yet it does not die ; and the larvae, when they hatch, begin feeding very carefully, so as not to kill their host until they them- selves are sufficiently developed. The poison introduced seems . to simply suspend life, or rather allows it to go on without a waste of tissue. Spiders of all kinds are attacked, and even the fierce tarantula of the South and Southwest has its enemy in an enormous species oi Pepsis known as the "; Perhaps the most common forms belonging to this series are those in which the abdomen ends in a small bulb-like structure 26
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