Entomology for beginners; for the use of young folks, fruitgrowers, farmers, and gardeners; . a. FIG. 165.—Mycetobia sor-dida. a, larva; b, pupa. FIG. 106.—Hessian fly. a, larva; b, Fitch. army-worm, living under the bark of trees, will, when about topupate, form processions four or five inches wide and ten or twelve ORDER LEPIDOPTERA. 137 feet long. MycetoUa sordidn Pack, lives in sour sap in cracks of thebark of elm-trees. Family Cecidomyidae.—This great family of gall-gnats comprisesmostly minute flies, which have but few veins in the wings, shortcoxae, the femora slender, and t
Entomology for beginners; for the use of young folks, fruitgrowers, farmers, and gardeners; . a. FIG. 165.—Mycetobia sor-dida. a, larva; b, pupa. FIG. 106.—Hessian fly. a, larva; b, Fitch. army-worm, living under the bark of trees, will, when about topupate, form processions four or five inches wide and ten or twelve ORDER LEPIDOPTERA. 137 feet long. MycetoUa sordidn Pack, lives in sour sap in cracks of thebark of elm-trees. Family Cecidomyidae.—This great family of gall-gnats comprisesmostly minute flies, which have but few veins in the wings, shortcoxae, the femora slender, and the tibiaa without spurs. They inserttheir eggs in the leaves of trees and stems of plants, raising a gall ortumor within which the maggots, often pink in color, live. Thelarva of Miastor produces young, living larvse. Examples of thefamily are the wheat midge, DipLom tritici (Kirby, Fig. 238), andHessian fly (Fig. 237). Cecidomyia, grossularice Fitch causes the goose-berry to turn prematurely red. OKDER XV. LEPIDOPTERA* (Moths and Butterflies).The beginner in the- study of insects, aft
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