GRASSHOPPERS AND OTHER INJURIOUS INSECTS OF 1911 AND 1912. 



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Northern Shrike, Rose-breasted Grosbeak, White-crowned Sparrow, 

 Harris Sparrow, Bobolink, Cow-bird, Red-winged Blackbird, 

 Meadow Lark, Crow Blackbird, Crow, Kingbird, many of the 

 smaller birds of prey, also Prairie Chicken, Quail, Cuckoo, Turtle 

 Dove and English Sparrow. 



Reptiles: Reported by Somes. Garter Snake, Northern 

 Swift, Northern Sand Lizard, Bell's Painted Tortoise. 



Amphibians : Toads and Frogs. 



Fish : Nearly all of our fish will take grasshoppers falling into 

 the water or thrown in. 



Parasitic. 



Muscina stabiilcms (reported as 



Fig. 24. The Non-biting .Stable Fly. 3fuseiiia 

 stahulaus. Original. 



Invertebrates. Insects : 

 distinctly parasitic in our 

 work) , Helicobia h e lice s 

 (possibly a savenger only), 

 various species of Tachinids 

 (Tachina and possibly other 

 genera were found in August 

 in the thoracic cavity of Dis- 

 sosteira Carolina, M. bivitta- 

 tiis, M. atlanis, Melanoplu^ 

 dairsoni, SpJiaragemon col- 

 lare, Orphulclla speciosa and 

 others. 



A Bombylid : Systaecli us 

 oreas. Pupated but died before emergence of adult as reported by 

 Howard. Several species of Phorids, parasitic, according to 

 Howard, either in the grass- 

 hoppers themselves or upon 

 the pupae of fly larvse found 

 within the hoppers. From 

 eggs obtained at Foxhome, a 

 small hymenopterous parasite 

 emerged late in the fall of 

 1912. 



Worms : Nematodes, 

 "Hair-snakes" were found in 

 the body cavities of M. bivit- 

 tatus and M. cliff erentialis. 



Fig. 25. A Bonib.vlid Fly. Syxtochas oreas. 

 After Riley. 



