. A manual for the study of insects. Insects. 5so THE STUDY OF INSECTS. prevent the beetles from depositing their eggs on the trees. After a tree is once infested, the larvae should be cut out with a gouge or a knife. Nursery stock that is infested should be promptly burned. The Red-necked Agrilus, Agrilus rtificollis (Ag'ri-lus ruf- i-corhs).—This beetle (Fig. 664) is about three tenths of an inch long. Its body is narrow and nearly cyl- J indrical. The head is of a dark-bronze color, the 1 prothorax of a beautiful coppery bronze, and the wing covers black. The larva bores in the stems of Fig
. A manual for the study of insects. Insects. 5so THE STUDY OF INSECTS. prevent the beetles from depositing their eggs on the trees. After a tree is once infested, the larvae should be cut out with a gouge or a knife. Nursery stock that is infested should be promptly burned. The Red-necked Agrilus, Agrilus rtificollis (Ag'ri-lus ruf- i-corhs).—This beetle (Fig. 664) is about three tenths of an inch long. Its body is narrow and nearly cyl- J indrical. The head is of a dark-bronze color, the 1 prothorax of a beautiful coppery bronze, and the wing covers black. The larva bores in the stems of Fig. 664. raspberry and blackberry, causing a large swelling, known as the Raspberry Gouty-gall. These galls should be collected and burned in early spring. Family LAMPYRlDiE (Lam-pyr'i-dae). The Firefly Family or Lampyrids {Lam-py'rids), z, x- During some warm, moist evening early in our Northern June we are startled to see here and there a tiny meteor shoot out of the darkness near at hand, and we suddenly realize that summer is close upon us, heralded by her mysterious mes- sengers, the fireflies. A week or two later these little torch- bearers appear in full force, and the gloom that overhangs marshes and wet meadows, the dusk that shrouds the banks of streams and ponds, the darkness that haunts the borders of forests, are illumined with myriads of flashes as these silent, move hither and thither under the cover of the night. The fireflies are soft-bodied beetles of medium or small size, with slender, usually eleven-jointed, saw-like an- tennae. The prothorax is expanded into a thin pro- jecting margin, which in most cases completely covers the head (Fig. 665). The wing-covers are rather soft, and never strongly embrace the sides of ^^^- ^^5- the abdomen, as with most other beetles. Most members of this family are nocturnal insects, and. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - c
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