to the loose clods 0 
58 Insects. 
BUSHBERG CATALOGUE. 
Insects. 
varieties of the grape-vine, and will gather upon that 
i and leave others unmolested, where it has a 
chance. Those who oe troubled with this beetle will 
no doubt take the hin 
THE GRAPE-CURCULIO. 
(Czliodes inzqualis.) 
Fig. %. a, berry, —e ~ a ey a hair-line 
of this curculio infests the grapes in June 
and July, causing a pote black hole in the skin, and a 
discoloration of the berry immediately around it, as 
an es 
few inches i in the ground, and by the beginning of Sep- 
ber ect insect issues from the ground and 
doubtless passes the winter in the beetle state, ready 
to mapas the exapes eng — following ages or 
Jun 
of a tilock © color with a ean thi Iti is ecreeankal 
they are noticed, be collected and destroyed, and the 
beetle may be jarred down on sheets as with the Plum 
There are several Cut-worms which eat the young, 
- tender shoots of the vine, and draw them into the 
~ oaprbeni a, haye maa or kept back at 
Teast, ung Vine. The little rascals can be 
easily 1 ent cal destroyed by liane for them under 
ground beneath the young: vine. 
vine—large sary w worms—insects vee lay eggs | in 
> canes—others 
to the grape-grower to close 
eo = m insects with a brief account of some of 
and Chalcidide). The egg is deposited by the mother 
parasi air ae on or into the body of its victim, which is 
the larva state, the parasitic larva feeding 
upon the arene arts ofits victim, and causingits death 
only after it hasitself ached full growth. 
among the Hymenop- 
tera are by far more 
alee sr. —TACHINA-FLY. numerous in species 
ore varied as to general appearance and mode 
We select for illustration one of the 
Micr OGASTER oft the family 
ovipositor the female Microgaster in- 
Fig. 88. serts a number of eggs in the body of 
MicRoGAsTER. the caterpillar while this is still young. 
The Microgaster larve develop within the caterpillar, 
and when full grown they pierce the skin of the latter, 
: Hg d work themselves so 
AS Le ef trout that they are held 
SANs “Son only by the last joint 
ws of the body. They 
Fig. 89. then commence spinning 
Shrunken larva of wpa coco svat white cocoons 
with MICROGASTER ¢ 
anding on end, as rep- 
resented in Fig. 89, the csatias having by this time 
died and greatly shrunk. A week or thereabout later 
the Ichneumon flies begin to hatch from the cocoons 
\ & 
al 
us Insects include numerous 
a 
injurious to the grape- 
Lapysrrps.—The Coleopterous family Coccinellide, 
Fig.90.—LADYBIRD. gq more uniform olor. 
With the exception of a few species nce constitute 
—- Epilachna, and afew allied genera, all Lady- 
are insectivorous, and, considering that many 
=~ oy ee 
= re 
atin stages live in oron their prey—the tr ‘ue 
BS looney is | represented only by two 
i a a ee 
- Hee, but they also feed extensively od eet eee oo 
an idea ea may be formed 
service perfiamed by the pet in 
the number ¢ of i injurious insects. The Lady- 
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