. The bee-keeper's guide : or Manual of the apiary . Bee culture; Bees. Jfantis.—Original. Its eggs (Fig. 292) are glued to some twig, in a scale-li»;e mass, and covered with a sort of varnish. Some of these hatched out in one of my boxes, and the depravity of these insects was manifest in the fact that those first hatched fell to Fig. ^S9^ of Mantis,—Original. and ate the others. They do much good in destroying our insect enemies. BLISXBR-BEKTI,BS. I have received from Mr. Rainbow, of San Diego Co., Calif., the larvae (Fig. 293, a) of some blister-beetles, probably Meloe barbarus, lyec,
. The bee-keeper's guide : or Manual of the apiary . Bee culture; Bees. Jfantis.—Original. Its eggs (Fig. 292) are glued to some twig, in a scale-li»;e mass, and covered with a sort of varnish. Some of these hatched out in one of my boxes, and the depravity of these insects was manifest in the fact that those first hatched fell to Fig. ^S9^ of Mantis,—Original. and ate the others. They do much good in destroying our insect enemies. BLISXBR-BEKTI,BS. I have received from Mr. Rainbow, of San Diego Co., Calif., the larvae (Fig. 293, a) of some blister-beetles, probably Meloe barbarus, lyec, as that is a common species in Califor- nia. Mr. Rainbow took as many as seven from one worker- bee. Fig. 293, B, represents the female of Meloe angusticoUis, a common species in Michigan and the Kast. I have also. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Cook, Albert John, 1842-1916. Chicago. Ill. : George W. York & Co.
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