Enemies of Bees — Blister Beetles. 



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liar anterior legs, like the same iu Pliymaia erosa, are used to 

 grasp its victims._ It is reported to move with surprising rapid- 

 ity, as it grasps it prey. 



Its eggs (Fig. 191) are glued to some twig, ^in a scale-like 

 mass, and covered with a sort of varnish, ►'^omc of these 



hatched out in one fif my boxes, and the depravity of these 

 insects was manifest in the fact that those first hatched fell to 

 and ate the others. 



BLISTER BEETLES. 



I have received from Mr. Rainbow, of Fall Brook, Califor- 

 nia, the larva; (Fig. 192, a) of some blister beetles, proTsably 

 3Ielde barbarus, Lee. , as that is a common species in CaJifor- 



FiG. 192. 



nia. Mr, Rainbovv' took as many as seven from cne worker 

 bee. Fig. 192, b, represents the female of Mel'de amiustlcollM , 

 a common species in Michigan and the East. As will be seen, 



