. Economic entomology for the farmer and fruit-grower [microform] : and for use as a text-book in agricultural schools and colleges . Pepsis formosus, tarantula-hawk. creted by them for preserving from decay and in a condition suitable as food for their young the larvae, spiders, and other insects upon which they feed. They sting their prey very care- fully, in such' a way as to paralyze and render it motionless, while yet it does not die ; and the larvae, when they hatch, begin feeding very carefully, so as not to kill their host until they them- selves are sufficiently developed. The poison
. Economic entomology for the farmer and fruit-grower [microform] : and for use as a text-book in agricultural schools and colleges . Pepsis formosus, tarantula-hawk. creted by them for preserving from decay and in a condition suitable as food for their young the larvae, spiders, and other insects upon which they feed. They sting their prey very care- fully, in such' a way as to paralyze and render it motionless, while yet it does not die ; and the larvae, when they hatch, begin feeding very carefully, so as not to kill their host until they them- selves are sufficiently developed. The poison introduced seems to simply suspend life, or rather allows it to go on without a waste of tissue. Spiders of all kinds are attacked, and even the fierce tarantula of the South and Southwest has its enemy in an enormous species oiPepsis known as the " ; Perhaps the most common forms belonging to this series are those in which the abdomen ends in a small bulb-like structure 26
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