Economic entomology for the farmer and fruit-grower : and for use as a text-book in agricultural schools and colleges . An Elater from side, to show the prosternal process. the body from the surface, and to bring the tip of the curvedprocess to the edge of the cavity. A sudden release of musculartension reverses matters, sends the insect into the air a few inches,and this snapping or jumping performance is repeated untilit alights on its feet. In the larval stage the term wire-wormsexpresses the appearance and texture of the creature, and bringsto mind at once an agent of destruction hardly su
Economic entomology for the farmer and fruit-grower : and for use as a text-book in agricultural schools and colleges . An Elater from side, to show the prosternal process. the body from the surface, and to bring the tip of the curvedprocess to the edge of the cavity. A sudden release of musculartension reverses matters, sends the insect into the air a few inches,and this snapping or jumping performance is repeated untilit alights on its feet. In the larval stage the term wire-wormsexpresses the appearance and texture of the creature, and bringsto mind at once an agent of destruction hardly surpassed in the THE INSECT WORLD. 183 insect world. Scarcely a farmer can be found who has not beentroubled to some extent by wire-worms, and many a remedyrecommended as infillible has been tried and found wanting inactual practice. We have two series of species, one of which Fig. 165. Fig. 166. Fig. 167.
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