. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Reptiles; Fishes; Mollusks; Natural history; Reptiles; Poissons; Mollusques; Sciences naturelles. m. Ill'' i i% J'^11*' iff iff .tills' •HH) THE TCIIXEUMON. rfjeetiiij' tlio tliick iktviu'cs. It makes no cocoon, Init retires into the ground, excavate: ii kind of oviil cell, wliicji it lines with a sliniv substance, and there awaits its finil ehann-e. " The \v(-ll-known lilnek ( {Xcmatiiti grosmldrvv) is another of the 8r\v flies. _ Us larva, so di'structive to the fruit, is blacki'sh grey. Tiiese tiresome creatuics ar
. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Reptiles; Fishes; Mollusks; Natural history; Reptiles; Poissons; Mollusques; Sciences naturelles. m. Ill'' i i% J'^11*' iff iff .tills' •HH) THE TCIIXEUMON. rfjeetiiij' tlio tliick iktviu'cs. It makes no cocoon, Init retires into the ground, excavate: ii kind of oviil cell, wliicji it lines with a sliniv substance, and there awaits its finil ehann-e. " The \v(-ll-known lilnek ( {Xcmatiiti grosmldrvv) is another of the 8r\v flies. _ Us larva, so di'structive to the fruit, is blacki'sh grey. Tiiese tiresome creatuics are often seen in great numbers, more than a thousand liaving b, en taken on a .siiKri,' goosebeny-busli, and there are two Innods in the couise of a year. Witliout goiu" int„ further details, it is sullicient to say that there is hardly a plant A\ithout its esp,,.i.|l Saw-lly, and tliat any one who can discover a really effectual mode of checkiner for the purpose of (lejxisitiug the ecus. When tliev are hatched, the yiiung grubs immediately begin to gnaw their wav through the wood, lion'ii" it in every direction, and making burrows of no mean size. Those of the present s])L>cies jirefer fir and pine, and I liave had specimens of the wood sent to me which hav; liecu riddled by the until they looked as if they had harboured a colony of thesbip, worm. The ])cilect insects often make their aj^iiearance in houses, the larva; having beon concealed in the timbers and rafters ; and 1 know of one case where a gentleman Avhd Imd built a wooden garden-house, was sadly annoyed by the multitudes of the Sirex wliidi emerged iroin the timber. In such cases the insects d(j not seem to attain tlieiv full , but ai)pear dwarfed and stunted. All wood-boring insects are, however extremely variable in size. Tlie next group of the Terebrantia is called Entomophaga, or Tnsect-eater,s, because the greater number of them are ])arasitic U]ioii otlu'r insects, just as tl
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