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Scientific American, Vol. 35, No. 3 (1876) (1876)

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o the plants, but that the dish gray, and the body is covered with down. They resemble with black lines. Its larva, larger than those of the ordin- growth succeeding its application is something wonderful, ary species of ant lion, are also lighter in color; and instead flattened maggots with rather… … nurial value. To test it fairly, so long as it is living and ac- ANT LIONS. a portion of a field should be tive. Dead insects the ant lion sown with the prepared seed, and further fortified by sprink- thus concealing themselves, so as to seize passing prey. rejects and tosses out of its hole in…

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