Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh Volume 1 - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ...and allowed them to remain until April 1898, when they were removed to a window in the Laboratory. I obtained imago-issue on the following dates:--Two on June 29, 1898. One „ „ 30, „ ».. July 12, „ » » ») 21,,, On July 14, 1898, a piece of newly-felled pine-stem was placed in a cotton sack and four of the lerus imagos introduced along with a number of live Hylesinus palliatus. The sack was allowed to stand out exposed to all weathers. At intervals up to September 30 I made examination and found the Cleridae alive, and now and again I added fresh Hylesinus. On examination the Clerus beetles would either be found in hiding, lying close, under a piece of loose bark or a bark-scale, or else running over the log with their characteristic active and eager movement. On January 3, 1899, I removed the log from its sack, but could find no trace of my Clerus beetles. Trusting that they were in winter quarters concealed in the bark crevices, I returned the log to the sack. On opening the sack again on February 25th I noticed a Clerus running about. The beetles continued to live till the end of May 1899. On June 3rd, eleven months from their appearance as imagos, I found three of the four lying dead; the fourth had probably escaped by a hole in the bottom of the sack where the pine-log had worn the cotton through. These four Clerus beetles had appeared, after pupation, in June and July 1898. In July 1899 I bred out another Clerus imago, under the following interesting circumstances. On August 24, 1898, I removed two Clerus larvae from below the bark of a pine where they had been since April 15, when the piece of pine came into my possession. One of the two larvae was placed in a 126 The Life-history Of Clerus Formicarius, Linn...