Economic entomology for the farmer and fruit-grower : and for use as a text-book in agricultural schools and colleges . Belostoma ameiicana. THE INSECT WORLD. 151 Streams, where it feeds on other insects and small fish, destroy-ing larg-e numbers. During the night the winged individualsleave the ponds, pair, and fly to new localities to lay their abundantly do they occur that they sometimes become nui-sances near electric lights, and have been termed from this fact electric-light bugs. Sometimes we find slender, spider-like creatures of a browncolor scudding over the surface of the wat
Economic entomology for the farmer and fruit-grower : and for use as a text-book in agricultural schools and colleges . Belostoma ameiicana. THE INSECT WORLD. 151 Streams, where it feeds on other insects and small fish, destroy-ing larg-e numbers. During the night the winged individualsleave the ponds, pair, and fly to new localities to lay their abundantly do they occur that they sometimes become nui-sances near electric lights, and have been termed from this fact electric-light bugs. Sometimes we find slender, spider-like creatures of a browncolor scudding over the surface of the water at a rapid rate, and Fig. A water-strider, Rhcumatobates rileyi, female.—a, anterior tarsus ; b, ovipositor ; c, hind tarsus. these are water striders, or Hydrobatidcc. They are inter-esting because some of them their entire lives upon theocean, miles from land. These are said to feed upon the juicesof such dead fish and other animals as they find on the surface,and probably also on the floating masses of sea-weed occurringin equatorial regions where they are most common. The first family of economic importance among the terrestrialspecies is the Reduviidcs, containing species of quite large size. I=;2 AN ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY.
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