Annual report of the Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario, 1896 . ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO. 61 eggs on their bodies. From these ege^a ia a short time hatch white maggots which feedinside the bodies of their hosts until full grown, when they force their way out and, fallingto the ground, which they enter a short distance, they pupate, and change to flies eitherthe same autumn or the next spring. Prof. Kiley describes graphically the operationof egg laying by one of these Tachina flies, and much the same thing was observed byMr. J. E. Richardson of Princeton, Ont., last July. Prof. Rile
Annual report of the Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario, 1896 . ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO. 61 eggs on their bodies. From these ege^a ia a short time hatch white maggots which feedinside the bodies of their hosts until full grown, when they force their way out and, fallingto the ground, which they enter a short distance, they pupate, and change to flies eitherthe same autumn or the next spring. Prof. Kiley describes graphically the operationof egg laying by one of these Tachina flies, and much the same thing was observed byMr. J. E. Richardson of Princeton, Ont., last July. Prof. Riley says: The slow-flying locusts are attacked while flying, and it is quite amusing* to watch the frantic efforts which one of them haunted by a Tachina fly, will make to evade its enemy. The fly buzzes around waiting her opportunity, and, when the locust jumps or flies, darts at it and attempts to attach her egg under the wing or on the neck. The attempt frequently fails, but she perseveres until she usually accomplishes her object. With those locusts which fly
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