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English: Title: Applied entomology; an introductory text-book of insects in thier relations to man

Identifier: appliedentomolog00fern Year: 1921 (1920s) Authors: Fernald, Henry Torsey, 1866- Subjects: Beneficial insects; Insect pests; Insects Publisher: New York [etc. ] McGraw-Hill book company, inc. Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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Text Appearing Before Image: Fig. 373. Fig. 374. Fig. 373.—A male Mutillid (Traumatomutilla colorata Gerst). About twice natural size. {After Andre.) Fig. 374.—A female Mutillid (Ephuta occidcntalis L.), slightly enlarged. (After Andre.) spiders of the South and Southwest where this insect is found. It is a large and powerful wasp, about two inches long, but in its battles with the tarantula it is not always the victor.

Text Appearing After Image: Fig. 375.—Tarantula-killer (Pepsis marginata Fab.), somewhat reduced. {Original.) The insects of the family Eumenidse are very abundant in this country. Most of them are rather small (Fig. 376), and black with yellow markings seems to be the favorite color combination, as so frequently is the case with the other groups of wasps. Some make burrows in the

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