 | William Baird - 1858 - 642 páginas
...larvae are of a beautiful red colour, and as soon as the little creature is hatched from the egg it eats the grub of the bee in the cell in which it is born, and then proceeds from cell to ci'll devouring the inhabitants of each, till it arrives at maturity. Ciena apiariui selects the hive... | |
 | United States. Department of Agriculture - 1869 - 724 páginas
...absence of those insects, and upon the grubs ot which the larvre feed ; when first hatched, the larva devours the grub of the bee in the cell in which it was born, and then proceeds from cell to cell, preying upon the inhabitants of each, until it arrives... | |
 | Commissioner of Agriculture - 1869 - 728 páginas
...absence of those insects, and upon the grubs ot which the larvae feed; when first hatched, the larva devours the grub of the bee in the cell in which it was bom, and then proceeds from cell to cell, preying upon the inhabitants of each, until it arrives... | |
 | United States. Department of Agriculture - 1869 - 724 páginas
...absence of those insects, and upon the grubs oí which the larvœ feed ; when first hatched, the larva devours the grub of the bee in the cell in which it was born, and then proceeds from cell to cell, preying upon the inhabitants of each, until it arrives... | |
 | Washington Government Pritning Office - 1869 - 722 páginas
...absence of those insects, and upon the grubs ot which the larva? feed; when first hatched, the larva devours the grub of the bee in the cell in which it was born, and then proceeds from cell to cell, preying upon the inhabitants of each, until it arrives... | |
 | Alpheus Spring Packard - 1870 - 756 páginas
...red color. The European Clerus cdvearius infests the nests of the Mason-bees, Osmia and Megachile. "The larva when hatched, first devours the' grub of...making its escape from the nest in the beetle state, where the hardness of its covering sufliciently defends it from the stings of the bees." (Westwood.)... | |
 | Alpheus Spring Packard - 1876 - 772 páginas
...red color. The European Clerus alvearius infests the nests of the Mason-bees, Osmia and Megachile. "The larva when hatched, first devours the grub of...making its escape from the nest in the beetle state, where the hardness of its covering sufficiently defends it from the stings of the bees." (Westwood.)... | |
 | 1894 - 188 páginas
...them infests the ) ests of bees, the eggs being laid by the beetles in or near the nests themselves. The larva, when hatched, first devours the grub of...hardness of its covering sufficiently defends it from the sting of the bees. Another series lives in the galleries of wood-boring beetles, and more particularly... | |
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The larva when hatched, first devours the grub of the bee in the cell in which it is born and then proceeds from cell to cell, preying upon the inhabitant of each until arrived at maturity. It is in this situation, also, that it undergoes its changes... 