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Identifier: introductiontozo00dave
Title: Introduction to zoology; a guide to the study of animals, for the use of secondary schools;
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Davenport, Charles Benedict, 1866-1944 Davenport, Gertrude Anna Crotty, 1866-
Subjects: Zoology
Publisher: New York, Macmillan company London, Macmillian and co., ltd.
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MBLWHOI Library
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FIG. 45. — A staphylinid elevating the abdomen. Photo, by W. H. C. P. Hymenoptera in the general form of the body, but also inthe movements of the tip of the abdomen, which, when the 1 i>5ajp, water; 0/Xos, loving. 2 (rTa^i/AZVos, from crra^iyXiy, a cluster, is Aristotles name for a certaininsect. 48 ZOOLOGY
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animal is irritated, is raised as though to sting (Fig. 45). These beetles feed upon decaying animal and plant matter; consequently they are useful scavengers. Some species in-habit the nests of ants and of termites,but their relations with their hosts areunknown. The larvae are not unlike theadults, and inhabit similar situations. The carrion or sexton beetles (Silphi-drel) are usually of medium or largesize, and are either stout-bodied, withred spots on each elytron (Necro- phorus2), or very much flattened andFIG. 46. —Silpha amer- .,,,-,/ -, -, ^ ^.,, ,,. ... icana, a carrion bee- with thin-edged elytra (Silpha, -b ig. 46). tie. From Standard rpjie Species of NecropllOrilS are power-Natural History. * ful animals. When one or more pairsof these beetles discover a dead bird or small mammalon the ground, they dig out the earth from underneathand pile it upon the animal until eventually the car-cass is entirely buried. Thenthe female deposits her eggsupon the body, so that a richsup