The Bookshelf for boys and girls: Nature and Outdoor Life (1912)
University Society, New York · New York. : University Society · leaf 98
fly or a bee. Do not know whichyet, as wings are badly crumpled. This was later identified as Microdon, one ofthe syrphid flies, whose portrait appears in Fig. 3. These larvae of the Microdon, a genus of thefamily of Syrphus flies, live in ant-nests, and,when first found, were actually described as… … fig. 3. THE FULL-GROWN FLY CALLED MICRODON.(ENLARGED.) most common of the syrphids are those bee-likelittle fellows you may see any frosty fall morningbenumbed on the chrysanthemums, but whichsoon buzz merrily about in the warm sunshine. THE SELF-DEFENSE OF UNARMEDINSECTS Many insects apparently…
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