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A BOOK OF INSECTS 





Asclepiads, 235 



Asccodes, 331 



Asilida?, 93, 185, 186 



Atropus, 67 



Attn, 300 



Altacus, 90 



Auditory organs, 104-110 



Avebnrv, Lord, quoted, 21, 107, 110, 116, 



222, 224, 252, 296, 298, 318 

 Axinic acid, 333 

 Azteca, 207 



Bacteria as enemies of insects, 251 

 Bacterial diseases disseminated by in- 

 sects, 323 

 Balaninus, 83, 198 

 Bark-boring insects, 193 



— louse, 23 



Bates quoted, 152, 183, 255, 300 

 Bats, insect diet of, 244 

 Bean and pea thrips, 70 

 Beddard, Dr. F. E., 146 

 "Bedeguar" gall-wasp, 205 

 Beech coccus, 73, 168 

 Bee-flies, 93, 150 

 Bee-louse, 95 

 Bee-orchis. See Orchis 

 Bees, 96, 100 



— "carder," 281, 282 



— carpenter, 270 



— colour preferences of, 224 



— courtship of, 260 



— eggs of, 14 



— flight of, 51 



— hive, 42, 55, 251, 284. See also Hive- 



b6CS 



— humble, 226, 227, 228, 280. See also 

 Humble-bees 



— mason, 124, 270 



— "mosquito," 283 



— nectar-sucking by, 214 



— nervous system of, 102 



— pollen-collecting bv, 214 



— solitary, 269, 278, 2*79 



Beetles, 78. See also Ladybirds, Weevils, 

 Fireflies, Glow-worm, Meal-worm, 

 Wire-worm 



— aquatic, 317 



— asparagus, 82 



— association with ants, 295 



— bacon, 79 



— bark, 83, 272 



— bean and pea, 82, 198 



— " black." See Cockroach 



— blister, 83, 332 



— bombardier, 166 



— burying, 188 



— cellar, 82 



— chafers, 80, 102, 106, 193, 246, 275 



Beetles, " click," 80, 166 



— cocktail, 78, 173 



— Colorado, 82 



— devil's coach-horse, 78, 150, 164 



— diving, 311 



— dung, 80 



— furniture, 81, 322 



— Goliath, 11, 80 



— ground, 78, 173, 311 



— Hercules, 80 



— hypermetamorphosis of, 2G, 27 



— leaf, 82 



— long-horn, 81, 110, 150, 151, 194 



— marine, 10 



— mimicry of bees and wasps by, 150 



— oil, 26, 27, 82, 167 



— "paste," 322 



— as prey of birds, 246 



— railway, 81 



— raspberry, 79 



— riverside, 316 



— rose, 80 



— rove, 78, 79, 173 



— roving carrion beetles, 79 



— sacred, 189, 263 



— scarabs, 80, 189 



— scavenger, 188, 189, 272 



— sex differences in, 253, 259 



— sexton, 79,188, 189, 272 



— skip-jack, 165, 166 



— " soldier and sailor," 80 



— stag, 79 



— tiger, 78, 151, 173, 181 



— tortoise, 82, 168 



— whirligig, 78, 104, 310, 312, 314 



— wasp, 150 



— water, 12, 78, 173, 310, 311 



— wood-boring, 322 

 Belostornida, 176 



Belt, on leaf-cutting ants, 300 

 " Belt's bodies," 206 

 Bembex, 268, 278 

 Bibio, 104, 275 



Birch-leaf rolled by weevil, 122 

 Bird-lice, 67 



Bird's-foot trefoil, fertilisation by in- 

 sects, 228 

 Birthworts, fertilisation by insect?, 231 

 Biting insects, 42, 59 

 "Biting-lice," 67 

 Bittacus, 177 



" Black-beetle," 62. See also Cockroach 

 " Black-beetle " or Cellar beetle, 82 

 Bladderwort as enemv of insects, 248 

 Blaps, 82 



Blastophaga, 239, 241 

 Blatta, 62 



Blattidce, cockroaches, q.v. 

 Blood of insects, 4 



