A Report on the Insects of Massachusetts: Injurious to VegetationFolsom, Wells, and Thurston, printers to the University, 1841 - 459 pages |
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abdomen Angoumois antennæ appear band bark beetles belong beneath black spots blackish body borers broad brood brown brownish burrow called canker-worms caterpillars Cecidomyia chrysalis Cicada cocoons color covered cylindrical devour dots dusky edge Entomology Fabricius feelers female flies fore-wings forepart fully grown genus grain gray ground grubs habits hairs hatched head Hemiptera Hessian fly hind hind-wings hinder hindmost holes horse-flies Hymenoptera inch and three inch in length inch long injurious insects July June kinds larva larvæ latter lay their eggs leaves legs Linnæus live locust-tree locusts maggots males Massachusetts middle moths narrow nearly numbers ochre-yellow Orthoptera oval pair pale piercer plant-lice plants punctures pupa ravages reddish resemble ring saw-flies seen short skin slender sometimes species spines stripe tapering tenths thick thorax transformations transparent transverse trees trunks under-side warts weevils whitish wing-covers wings expand yellow yellowish young