NATURE'S CRAFTSMEN 



Argiope aiirentium, 205, 241,1 278; pupal case of, 280; nets of, 

 242; zigzag spiral, 244; swath- I 283, 285. 



ing her victim, 247; section of Camponotus herculaneus — Penn- 

 snare, 249; cocoon of, 251, 253; sylvanicus, 32, 114. 

 spinnmg organs of, 255; death Carlyle, Thomas, 197. 



of, 2.55, 2.56, 



Argiope riparia, 241. 



Aristida oligantha, 87. 



Aristida stricta, 87. 



Armor of insects, defensive and 

 offensive, 220. 



Augochlora, 149; burrow and cell 

 of, 168. 



Aveburv, Lord (Sir Jolui Lub- 

 bock), 50. 



Bag worm, 207. 



Ballooning spiders, 182. 



Baltimore oriole, 198. 



Barron, Rev. Dr. D. H., 25. 



Bee bread. 148. 



Bees, cutting, 148; nest of, 149; 

 cuckoo, 155; mason, 156; 

 honey, 157, 1.58; bumble, 159, 

 174; carpenter, 161, 172, 176, 

 177, 179; solitary-, 154, 161, 



Carpenter ants, marriage flight 

 of, 31, 33; fomiding colony, 

 34; mode of dumping p>eUets, 

 113, 144; work in a miU beam, 

 115; nests in shade-trees, 116; 

 dmnping pellets on pavements, 

 118; character of architecture, 

 120, 121, 122; injury to forest 

 trees, 126; injury to houses 

 and bridges, 127. 



Ceratinida^, 173. 



Chalybion ca-ruleum, 213, 216. 



Chinch bug, 304, 305. 



Cicada, 217; chapter on, 228; 

 tibicen, 228; septendecim, 228, 

 260, 296. 



Cocci, 52. 



Codling moth, ravages of, 304. 



Colletes Americana, 149. 



Collet es com pacta, 149. 



Colletes inequalis, 163, 165. 



Colorado, ants of. 97. 



172; burrowing, 163; resiniers 

 and cottoniers, 171; males of, Cope, Professor Edward, 103. 

 6; wild, chapter x., 146; mode Cotton caterpillar, 304. 

 of cutting leaves, 146. Crematogaster lineolata, 51. 



Beetles, adopted by ants, 52; i Cresson, Ezra T., 84, 171, 172 

 sculpture worn by friction, 94; Cteniza Californica, 221. 



lady bird, 297. 

 Belwood, Pennsylvania, 116. 

 Benevolence among ants, 63. 

 Buchloi dactyloides, 88. 

 Buffalo-grass, 85, 88. 

 Bugs, true (Hemiptera), 2.59. 

 Bureau of Entomology, 307. 

 Burroughs, John, 117. 

 Burrowing wasps, 218. 

 Bombus Virginica, 159. 

 Bomdyx mori, 302. 

 Boneset, 144. 

 Brakelev, Mr. J. T., 166, 167, 



169. " 

 Brues, Charles T., 151. 



C.vDDis fly, 274. 



Caddis worm, net -making, cairns 



of, 274; larvse and imago, 275; 



manner of building its den. 



Cutting ants, 209. 

 Cutting bee, 209. 

 Cynips quercus-mellaria , 103. 



D.A-Rwix, Charles, 68, 160, 190. 



291, 292, 293. 

 Dealation of ants, 7. 

 Denver, Colorado, bees of, 171. 

 Devon hills, 144. 

 Devon, Pennsvlvania, bees of, 



166. 

 Dodge, Captain George H., 190. 

 Dolichoscaptus latastei, 224. 



Earth worms, 292, 293. 

 Edwards, Dr. Jonathan, 196. 

 Eggs of ants, development of, 38. 

 Elis 4-notata, 225, 226. 

 Entomology-, economic, 304; bu- 

 reau of, 307. 



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