. The bee-keeper's guide; or, Manual of the apiary. Bees. i:04 THE BEH-KBBPER'S GUIDE ; which would also suggest the name. It might well be preying mantis. These peculiar anterior legs, like the same in Phy- mata erosa, are used to grasp its victims. It is reported to move with surprising rapidity, as it grasps its prey. Fig. Mantla.—Original, Its eggs (Fig. 292) are glued to some twig, in a scale-like 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. 29
. The bee-keeper's guide; or, Manual of the apiary. Bees. i:04 THE BEH-KBBPER'S GUIDE ; which would also suggest the name. It might well be preying mantis. These peculiar anterior legs, like the same in Phy- mata erosa, are used to grasp its victims. It is reported to move with surprising rapidity, as it grasps its prey. Fig. Mantla.—Original, Its eggs (Fig. 292) are glued to some twig, in a scale-like 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. 292. Eggs of Jfantis.— Original. and ate the others. They do much good in destroying our insect enemies. BI,ISTER-BEETI,ES. I have received froni 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 angusticollis, a common species in Michigan and the East. 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 & company
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