Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 693
ssin-bugs {Reduviidce). The eggs are es-pecially queer, and I do not wonder that youwanted to know what they are. ProfessorHoward, in his Insect Book, states: The eggs of nearly all reduviids are of very strangeappearance, and are frequently distinguished by someform of protective resemblance. The… … THE EGGS ON THE STICK. chances to be. In this stage the insect passes thewinter. In the late spring the cap of the bottle ispushed off and the young bug emerges. The younginsect has a blood-red abdomen and its thorax is markedwith black. In walking it frequently elevates the abdo-men, curving it…
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