

llo^fipr, jii'i 



A BEETLE DESTROYING THE BROWN-TAIL MOTH 

 (Calosoma sycophanta) 



The most successful of the introduced enemies of the gipsy moth and brown-tail moth. Adult beetle 

 destroying a gipsy moth caterpillar, below at left; pupa, under ground, at right; eggs, above left; gipsy 

 moth pupas and the Calosoma larvae that destroyed them, above at right. 



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