An Ecological Study of Prairie and Forest Invertebrates Paperback - 1201

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ... the Chicago region very helpful. (Cf. von Schrenk and Spaulding, '09.) A few references to zoological papers will aid the student who wishes to give more attention to this interesting and increasingly important economic subject, and a short list follows. Busck ('02). Mushroom pests. Hubbard ('92). Insects in Polyporus volvatus Peck; and ('97) on the ambrosia beetles. Johannsen ('1o-'12). Mycetophilidae. Malloch ('12). Phoridae in fungi. Popenoe ('12). Mushroom pests. Patch ('12). Aphids on fungi, page 179. Ulke ('02). Notes on food habits of fungus-beetles, of which there are many families, including Silphidcc, Staphylinidcc, Endomychidce, Erotylidcc, Mycetophagidcc, Nitidulidiz, Scarabccidcc, Tenebrionidcc, Melandryidce, Scolytidcc, etc. Jager ('74, I, pp. 245-246) and Moller ('67, pp. 59-60) have given short lists of the German fungus insects. The subject of fungus insects can not be dismissed without special mention of the ambrosia beetles of the family Scolytidcc. These small beetles have been studied by Hubbard ('97), who showed that they rear fungi in their tunnels in wood, these fungi furnishing nourishment to the larvae, and beetles. Each beetle seems to grow its own kind of fungus. They belong to the following genera: Platypus, Xyleborus, Corthylus, Monarthrum, Xyloteres, and Gnathotrichus. The beetles of the genus Corthylus live in a variety of hardwood trees, including maple, sassafras, dogwood, etc., and attack living trees. The ambrosia beetles are thus dependent upon fungi growing in the trees. They furnish a very striking example of a mutually dependent associational relationship. Hopkins ('99, '93a, '93b) has published much valuable data on the life history, habitats, and enemies of these beetles. A study of them as a...