NO. 7 PROTECTIVE ADAPTATIONS McATEE l6l 



PALEOPTERA 



Sh.ajip, David. 



1910. Blattidae — cockroaches. Cambridge Xat. Hist., vol. 5, pp. 220-241. 

 Food chiefly dead animal matter, but a great variety of refuse 

 also taken. Enemies include birds, rats, scorpions, spiders, and 

 wasps (Ampulicides). 



dictyoptera 

 Sharp, David. 



1910. Mantidae — soothsayers or praying insects. Cambridge Nat. Hist., 

 vol. 5, pp. 242-259. Voracious, eating insects of all kinds including 

 their own, and even small birds. 



CORRODENTIA 

 Food animal and vegetable refuse, and fungi. 



MALLOPHAGA 



Externally parasitic on birds and mammals. 



SIPHONAPTERA 

 External parasites on birds and mammals. 



RHYNCHOTA 

 Cl.\rk, L. B. 



1928. Seasonal distribution and life history of Notonecta undulala in the 



Winnipeg Region, Canada. Ecolog>% vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 383-403, pi. 

 20, I fig., Oct. Summary of literature as to food and enemies, pp. 

 395-399. Food : eggs of giant water bug, water-boatman, eggs and 

 nymphs of dragonflies, ostracods, copepods, newly hatched fishes. 

 Enemies : giant water bug, water-scorpion, waterstrider, dragonfly 

 nymphs, fishes, and birds. 



CuRRAX. C. Howard. 



1920. Observations on the more common aphidophagous syrphid flies 

 (Dipt.). Can. Ent., vol. ^2, no. 3. pp. 53-55, Mar. Larvae of five 

 species consumed on the average from 15 to 47 plant lice daily. 



Distant, W. L. 



1892. A monograph of the Oriental Cicadidae, pp. vii-viii. " The Cicadidae 

 appear to be one of the most non-protected families of insects and 

 are the victims of most predacious creatures." Mentions birds, 

 mantids, spiders, dragonflies, wasps, hymenopterous parasites and 

 fungi. 



Fluke, C. L. 



1929. The known predacious and parasitic enemies of the pea aphid in 



North America. Research Bull. 93, Wisconsin Agr. Exp. Sta., 

 47 PP-. 3 pis., 2)2 figs. Mites, spiders, crickets, lacewing flies. 

 Hemiptera, Coleoptera, Diptera, Hymenoptera, and birds. Lace- 

 wings, ladybirds, and Syrphidae appear to be most important. 



