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large numbers of the winged females. After paralyzing them 

 and removing the wings, the wasp stores those plump ants in 

 some of the pockets of her burrow. Later she lays an egg in 

 one of the empty compartments. When her child has emerged, 

 the mother brings ants from the store rooms, cuts them in two, 

 and feeds them to the greedy larva. When this charge has 

 developed into a pupa, she lays another egg and raises another 

 larva in the same manner. 



FOOD PROCURING AND DEFENSIVE INSTINCTS 



Newell (78) has described the feeding habits of the rice weevil, 

 Ely (37) of Cleonus calandroides, Webster (114) of Gypona octo- 

 lineata and Gillette (48) of some Pemphiginae. 



Bishopp and King (12) assert that, with rare exceptions, the 

 adult is the only form of the Rocky Mountain spotted fever 

 tick that attacks man. 



Linstow (68) mentions the animal diet of some caterpillars. 



According to Lucy Wright Smith (95), the stone fly {Perla 

 immarginata) is both carnivorous and cannibalistic; the presence 

 of diatoms in its stomach is the only evidence of an herbivorous 

 diet. 



After stating that 1380 larvae of the Mediterranean fruit fly 

 were obtained from 25 tropical almonds, H. H. P. Severin (92) 

 gives a list of 38 fruits that serve as food-hosts of the larvae of 

 this species of fruit fly. 



Phil and Nellie Rau (86) give a list of the insects consumed 

 by the mantis studied by them. These mantids are strictly 

 carnivorous, even cannibalistic; but they will not eat robber- 

 flies, nor stink-bugs; nor would they touch the potato beetle, 

 except when very hungry. 



These same investigators (87) have demonstrated that larval 

 wasps often have the capacity for more food than is stored in 

 their cells by the mother wasp. They induced one larva of 

 Try poxy Ion albitarse to consume two and a half and another 

 to eat two and a fourth more spiders than had been stored in 

 their cells. 



In addition to other material, Anna Morgan (76) gives, in 

 tabulated form, the foods of the nymphs of several species of 

 mayflies. 



According to Doane (34) the rhinoceros beetle attacks the 



