This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 Excerpt: ...of small joints and then a broad terminal structure which is made up of three or five leaves folded together like the leaves of a book. These may be separated when the insect is flying. They are presumed to be the organ of the sense of smell. There are many sensory pits, and they give evidence of having strong ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 Excerpt: ...of small joints and then a broad terminal structure which is made up of three or five leaves folded together like the leaves of a book. These may be separated when the insect is flying. They are presumed to be the organ of the sense of smell. There are many sensory pits, and they give evidence of having strong olfactory sense, in that they collect at any decaying matter. They are not all scavengers, but they all have an acute sense of smell. The tumble bugs and a host of scavenger beetles related to it are included in this family. The Egyptian scarabs belong here. The tumble bugs simply enclose their eggs in little masses of refuse matter. This is to serve as food substance for the larvae, and they shape it in a ball and roll it along until it becomes coated with earth. The balls are finally buried in the earth. The eggs hatch here and the larvae develop and get their subsistence from the material in the ball. Fig. 130.--Corpris carolina, under side. Enlarged. (From photo.) May Beetles or June Bugs.--Important economic species are the leaf-eating species. These are species of the genus Lachnosterna--Lachnosterna fusca in particular. These are known as May beetles or June bugs. They are distributed all through the country. There are perhaps twenty-five or thirty common species which occur in great abundance about the same time of the year, but these differ in minute characters of genitalia. They were formerly all grouped together in one species. They are leaf-eating in the adult stage. The adults appear rather early in summer, May or June. They are destructive in the adult stage by cutting off the leaves of trees. They do not eat the leaves much but cut them off at the petiole. Sometimes trees are completely stripped. They mate in the evening when they fly i...
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