. Insect pests of farm, garden and orchard . Fig. 76.—Two tachina-flies. {Exoristn leiicnnioe Kirk, and E. flavicaudaRiley). (After Riley.) But of all the insects attacking locusts, the l^hster-beetles,which, unfortunately, are often known to us as very injuriousto various garden crops, areprobably of the most female beetle depositsfrom four to five hundred ofher yellowish eggs in irregularmasses in loose ground, andin about ten days there hatchfrom these eggs some veryactive, long - legged larvae,with huge heads and strongjaws, which run about everywhere seeking the eggs of locusts.
. Insect pests of farm, garden and orchard . Fig. 76.—Two tachina-flies. {Exoristn leiicnnioe Kirk, and E. flavicaudaRiley). (After Riley.) But of all the insects attacking locusts, the l^hster-beetles,which, unfortunately, are often known to us as very injuriousto various garden crops, areprobably of the most female beetle depositsfrom four to five hundred ofher yellowish eggs in irregularmasses in loose ground, andin about ten days there hatchfrom these eggs some veryactive, long - legged larvae,with huge heads and strongjaws, which run about everywhere seeking the eggs of of these larva? will consume one of the masses or about
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