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INSECT CALENDAR. 



July, and the snuff- colored an oth enters our windows -at night, 

 in company with a host of night-flying moths. These large 



255. Lady Bug 

 and Pupa. 



254. Apple Borer, Larva and Pupa. 



moths, many of which are injurious to crops, are commonly 

 thought to feed on clothes and carpets. The true carpet and 

 clothes moths are minute species, which flutter 

 noiselessly about our apartments. Their nar- 

 row, feathery wings are edged with long silken 

 fringes, and almost the slightest touch kills 

 them. 



Among beetles, the various borers, such as 

 the Saperda, or apple tree borer (Fig. 254) are 

 now pairing, and fly in the hot sun about trees. 

 Nearly each tree has its peculiar, enemy, which 

 drives its galleries into the 

 trunk and branches of the 

 tree. Among the Tiger 

 beetles, frequenting sandy 

 places, the large Cicindela 

 geuerosa and the Cicindela hirticollis are most common. The 

 grotesque larvae live in deep holes 

 in sand-banks. 



The nine-spotted Lady Bug, Coc- 

 cinella novemnotata (Fig. 255, with 

 pupa) is one of a large group of 

 _* beetles, most beneficial from their 



*** habit of feeding on the plant lice. 



257. Forceps-tail. We fi g Ure another enemy of the 



Aphides, Chrysopa, and its eggs (Fig. 256), mounted each on a 

 long silken stalk, thus placed above the reach of harm. 



250. Lace-winged Fly and Eggs. 



