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Bugs, Butterflies, and Beetles 



but we will consider them as one family to save 

 time and space. One of the biggest of the goat- 

 beetles is the broad-necked Prionus (Fig. 233 beetle, 

 Fig. 234 pupa), a long coal-black fellow with 

 thick and stout jaws and thick and saw-toothed 

 antennae. The goat-beetles choose different trees 

 in which to make their gimlet hole. 

 Some of the grubs, like that of the 

 broad-necked Prionus, are as big 

 and thick as a man's 

 thumb ; these live in the 

 trunks or the roots of 

 the poplar trees and the 

 balm - of - Gilead trees. 

 ]g. 235 is the common 

 irolden-rod beetle. 



Like the weevil, the}- 

 seem to adapt themselves to all different trees, 

 being loath to slight any. One of the largest goat- 

 beetles found in New England is the tickler (Figs. 

 236 and 237), so named on account of the habit 

 which he has of waving his long antennae and gently 

 touching w^ith their tips the surface on which the 

 beetle walks. When they are courting, they wave 

 their long antenna around in a graceful manner 



