. Bulletin. Animals -- United States; Birds -- United States. TNBECT FOOD OF CARDINAL, 19. Fig. 12.—A bill bug (Spheno- phorus). (From Forbes, Illi- nois Experiment Station.) voiired by 13 cardinals. Two species (Sphe/wphorus cariosus and S. roTnjjressirostris) were identified. Lamellicorn or scarabteid beetles are next in importance to weevils in the beetle diet of the cardinal. Thev were eaten bv 77 birds and compose percent of the annual food. Many of them feed on ex- crementitioiis matter and are of neutral economic sio^nificance: but few of these are consumed by the bird. Those secur
. Bulletin. Animals -- United States; Birds -- United States. TNBECT FOOD OF CARDINAL, 19. Fig. 12.—A bill bug (Spheno- phorus). (From Forbes, Illi- nois Experiment Station.) voiired by 13 cardinals. Two species (Sphe/wphorus cariosus and S. roTnjjressirostris) were identified. Lamellicorn or scarabteid beetles are next in importance to weevils in the beetle diet of the cardinal. Thev were eaten bv 77 birds and compose percent of the annual food. Many of them feed on ex- crementitioiis matter and are of neutral economic sio^nificance: but few of these are consumed by the bird. Those secured in- clude the common road-frequenting dung beetles, which were captured by 6 cardi- nals, and the large resplendant scavenger Phanwus camifex. Other species in this family, however, are not so harmless as the above. The spotted vine-chafer {Pelidnota punctata)^ which is an important grape pest in the eastern United States, the two-spotted Anomala, which also devours the foliage of the grape, and the cetonias {Euphoria inda, fig. 15; E. fulgida, et al.), which feed upon all sorts of flowers and sometimes on young Indian corn, are all accepted as food by the cardinal. The southern June beetle or figeater {AUorhina nitida, fig. 13), which causes con- siderable damage in Florida and neighbor- ing States, was found in a few stomachs; but since the cardinal evinces a strong prefer- ence for large insects and abounds in this beetle's favorite home, many of them, no doubt, are devoured. Of great- est interest in this fam- ily are the (Maci'odactyluH hi/hspi- Fio. IS.—Fipreator {AUorhiiui nilida). (From Howard, 's fi^r 14) Thcse bee- ' liiircau of lOntoniology.) 'to' •/ I ties are so abundant at times, says Prof. J. 15. Smith, that they " ruin not only vineyards, but orchards and gardens, eating ovci-y kind of fruit and flower;. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - co
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