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ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 



73 



DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY, 



Edited by Prof. JOHN B. SMITH, Sc. D., New Brunswick, N. J. 



Wookpecker Work. It is nothing unusual to see a woodpecker hard at 

 work on the trunk of a tree, evidently after a meal, and sometimes quite 

 large trunks are hammered into in the search for larvae. It is surprising how 



IMC,, i. section of a trunk of black oak, showing 

 holes made by woodpecker; one-third natural size 

 (from a photograph). 



much work seems to be done lor such an apparently small return, and in 

 wocd like white and black oak. Among our rare insects are the Cossi'Js, 

 andjimong those forms that entomologists like to get, is C. 



