Bulletin of the Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station . second larva; dorsal ^^ ^^e, hUt SOOll tUlUfe Drown view (greatly enlarged). and bccomes veiT activc Avhcn warmed by the sun, running about over the surface of the ground andsearching for egg pods. When one of these is found, the triungulinbores through the neck of the pod and begins to eat it aAvay (Fig. ) After absorbing the substance of one or two eggs, this triungulinmoults and produces the second larva, known as the caraba^oid stage (, d). In this stage it lies in a curved position within the pod, asshown at e. During t
Bulletin of the Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station . second larva; dorsal ^^ ^^e, hUt SOOll tUlUfe Drown view (greatly enlarged). and bccomes veiT activc Avhcn warmed by the sun, running about over the surface of the ground andsearching for egg pods. When one of these is found, the triungulinbores through the neck of the pod and begins to eat it aAvay (Fig. ) After absorbing the substance of one or two eggs, this triungulinmoults and produces the second larva, known as the caraba^oid stage (, d). In this stage it lies in a curved position within the pod, asshown at e. During the growth of the larva, which is ra])id, severalother moults take place, the second one producing the scaral)ax)id stage(Fig. 23, a) in which the larva looks very much like an ordinary Avhite grub. A third moult results in lit-tle change structurally, but thelarva attains full size, and gener-ally leaves the egg pod which ithas by this time gutted. Afterthe fourth moult, a still greaterchange takes place and the larvabecomes shrunken, rigid and hard-ened.
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