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The round headed or two striped apple tree borer, _Saperda candida_, is a native of this country, infesting the native crabs, thorn bushes, and June berry.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 443, June 28, 1884 Various
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We also figure the larva of another borer (Fig. 107 _c_; _a_, top view of the head; _b_, under side; _e_, dorsal view of an abdominal segment; _d_, end of the body, showing its peculiar form), the Saperda inornata of Say, the beetle of which is black, with ash gray hairs, and without spines on the wing-covers.
Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872
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They have no feet, and they resemble the larvæ of other species of Saperda, except in being rather more flattened.
Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872
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Among beetles, the various borers, such as the Saperda, or apple tree borer (Fig. 254) are now pairing, and fly in the hot sun about trees.
Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872
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The structure of the head shows that its generic distinctness from Saperda is well founded, as the head is smaller and flatter, the clypeus being twice as large, and the labrum broad and short, while in S. vestita it is longer than broad.
Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872
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The Poplar tree is infested by an other species of Saperda (S. calcarata).
Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872
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It differs from the larva of the Linden tree borer (Saperda vestita) in the body being shorter, broader, more hairy, with the tip of the abdomen flatter and more hairy.
Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872
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What follows will undeceive us: I place separately, in empty cells, a grub of Saperda scalaria and a
The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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The wasps make no mistake: they extirpate the Saperda grub, kill it, fling it on the dust heap; they leave the Volucella grub in peace.
The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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I remember the brutal reception given to the Saperda and Hylotoma grubs when I place them on a comb.
The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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