. Elementary entomology . Fig. 396. Lystphlebus tritici, male, the wasplike parasite of the green-bug. (Very much enlarged) (After S. J. Hunter) which has been so destructive to grain in the southwest; this par- asite also attacks many other commonly injurious aphides. Larvae of the large green tobacco or tomato worm (PhlegetJwnthis qtiinqiie- maculata (Fig. 333) are frequently found covered with what appear to be small silken eggs. These are the cocoons of little braconids of the genus Apantcles which have devel- y\g. 397. Lysiphlebus parasite in act of depositing oped within the cat- eggs in
. Elementary entomology . Fig. 396. Lystphlebus tritici, male, the wasplike parasite of the green-bug. (Very much enlarged) (After S. J. Hunter) which has been so destructive to grain in the southwest; this par- asite also attacks many other commonly injurious aphides. Larvae of the large green tobacco or tomato worm (PhlegetJwnthis qtiinqiie- maculata (Fig. 333) are frequently found covered with what appear to be small silken eggs. These are the cocoons of little braconids of the genus Apantcles which have devel- y\g. 397. Lysiphlebus parasite in act of depositing oped within the cat- eggs in the body of a grain aphis. (Much enlarged) erpillar's body. Not (After Webster, United States Department of Agriculture)
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