28 INSECTS INJURIOUS IN 1902. 
pers can be mentioned the Red Mite which fastens itself on their 
wings and other parts of the body (see Fig. 4 of colored plate), 
predatory Beetles, Robber Flies, (see Fig. 21) Tachina parasites, 
Flesh Flies and Bee Flies, and, as an internal parasite, Gordius or 
the Hair Snake, which popular belief used to regard as a meta- 
morphosed horse hair. The writer has seen a specimen of Gordius 
in California emerging from a large Locust common in that State. 
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Fig. 25.—English sparrows catching grasshoppers in the streets of Crookston. 
Original. 
Turning to vertebrate enemies we note poultry, Prairie Chick- 
ens, Hawks, Black Birds, Crows, Meadow-larks (the writer ob- 
served an Oriole helping himself this summer) some Gulls and 
Terns, Frogs, Snakes and Skunks. I have even observed the 
much despised English Sparrow catching quantities of them in 
the streets of Crookston. 
