8 FARMERS’ BULLETIN 691. 
Young grasshoppers are frequently stung by female wasps, paralysis 
follows, and they are then stored to nourish the wasp larve. Several 
dozen helpless young grasshoppers have been dug from a single wasp 
Fic. 10.—Blister beetles: Coarctate larvee (winter stage). of several species, 14 times natural size. At 
bottom are two as found, partly within the grasshopper egg capsules. Most blister-beetle larve before 
transforming burrow some distance from the egg capsules in which they feed. (Original.) 
burrow. The larger spiders as well as ground beetles feed on such 
grasshoppers as they can secure. Parasitic flies deposit their eggs or 
living young on the grasshoppers and the maggots enter the body 
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