. Elementary entomology . pantries, and wherever meal is stored. The larvae are elongate, brown, and horny, very much resembling wire-worms, and are kept by bird fanciers for feeding song birds in winter. The beetle is from one half to three fourths of an inch long, dark brown, with square prothorax and ridged wing-covers. The blister-beetles (Meloidae) are so called because their juices cause a blis- tering of the human skin, and when dried and powdered they were formerly much used by phy- sicians for blister- FIG. 245. The black blister- ing. They are Soft- beetle. (Enlarged) bodied beetles
. Elementary entomology . pantries, and wherever meal is stored. The larvae are elongate, brown, and horny, very much resembling wire-worms, and are kept by bird fanciers for feeding song birds in winter. The beetle is from one half to three fourths of an inch long, dark brown, with square prothorax and ridged wing-covers. The blister-beetles (Meloidae) are so called because their juices cause a blis- tering of the human skin, and when dried and powdered they were formerly much used by phy- sicians for blister- FIG. 245. The black blister- ing. They are Soft- beetle. (Enlarged) bodied beetles with (After Chittenden United States the head prominent Department of Agriculture) and attached to the thorax by a very distinct neck. The elytra are flexible and rounded posteriorly, so that usually they do not cover the tip of the abdomen, while in some forms the wing-covers are quite short and the wings are lacking. Our common spe- cies are about half an inch long, dull gray or blackish, often marked with yellow stripes, while others are of a brilliant metallic bronze, green, or blue. The adults often appear in im- mense swarms and ruin garden crops. The striped blister-beetle (Epicauta vit- tata] was a common pest of potatoes before the advent of the Colorado beetle, and is known as the '' old-fashioned potato- ; The larvae have a very complicated metamorphosis, owing to their peculiar
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