Insects injurious to fruits . th; its legsare reddish, the hind pair having a broad white ring. Itis called the Ring-legged Pimpla, Pimpla annuHpes Br., andis represented, much magnified, in Fig. 139. The other species is about thesame size, but moreslender, and of ayellow or brownish-yellow color. Thefemale is providedwith a long ovipos-itor, as seen inFig. 140, where theinsect is shownhighly abdomen of themale is representedto the right of thefigure. This spe-cies is known asthe Delicate Long-sting, Ilacrocentrusdelicatus C r useful insectfriends are not yetsufficie
Insects injurious to fruits . th; its legsare reddish, the hind pair having a broad white ring. Itis called the Ring-legged Pimpla, Pimpla annuHpes Br., andis represented, much magnified, in Fig. 139. The other species is about thesame size, but moreslender, and of ayellow or brownish-yellow color. Thefemale is providedwith a long ovipos-itor, as seen inFig. 140, where theinsect is shownhighly abdomen of themale is representedto the right of thefigure. This spe-cies is known asthe Delicate Long-sting, Ilacrocentrusdelicatus C r useful insectfriends are not yetsufficiently numer-ous to check materially the increase of the codling moth,and it is doubtful if they ever will be. When the codlingworm has left the fruit in which it has been feeding, and whilewandering about in search of a suitable spot in which to passits chrysahs stage, it is liable to be attacked by any of theground-beetles, Carabidse, both in their larval and theirperfect state, also by the larvae of soldier-beetles and other. ATTACKING THE FRUIT. 133 carnivorous insects. Some of the smaller insectivorous birdsare also said to devour this insect both in the larval andin the pupal condition. No. 59.—The Apple quadrigibhus Say. This is a small beetle, a little smaller than a plum curculio,of a dull-brown color, having a long, thin snout, which sticksout more or less horizontally, and cannot be folded under thebody, as is the case with many species of Curculio. Thissnout in the female is as long as the body; in the male it isabout half that length. In addition to the prominent snout,it is furnished with four conspicuous brownish-red humps to-wards the hinder part of its body, from which it takes itsspecific name, quadrigibhus. Including the snout, its length is aquarter of an inch or more. In the accompanying figure, 141, the insect is magnified ; a rep- . Fig. 141. resents a back view, 6 a side view; the outline at the leftshows its natural size. Itsbody is
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