. Elementary entomology. Entomology. i6o ELEMENTARY ENTOMOLOGY large one and includes many serious pests, such as the round- headed apple-tree borer and others with similar habits. Three com- mon blackish species, brilliantly striped with yellow (Fig. 234), are known as locust-borer, hickory-borer, and sugar- maple-borer, after their respective food plants, which are frequently killed from the work of their larvae. Among our largest beetles are the prionids, the larvae of which infest the roots of various fruit and shade trees and herbaceous plants. The broad-necked prionus is from one to two
. Elementary entomology. Entomology. i6o ELEMENTARY ENTOMOLOGY large one and includes many serious pests, such as the round- headed apple-tree borer and others with similar habits. Three com- mon blackish species, brilliantly striped with yellow (Fig. 234), are known as locust-borer, hickory-borer, and sugar- maple-borer, after their respective food plants, which are frequently killed from the work of their larvae. Among our largest beetles are the prionids, the larvae of which infest the roots of various fruit and shade trees and herbaceous plants. The broad-necked prionus is from one to two inches long, pitchy black, with the thin margin of the prothorax toothed, as shown in Fie. 232. The oak- FiG. 232. The giant root-borer (Prioiiiis laticollis) (After Riley) pruner is a slender, brown species, about three fourths of an inch long, which lays. 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 Sanderson, Dwight, 1878-1944; Jackson, C. F. (Cicero Floyd), b. 1882; Metcalf Collection (North Carolina State University). NCRS. Boston, Ginn
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