Leaf-cutter

Leaf-cutter colonies are divided into big ants, which carry the leaves home, and little ants.

Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

Leaf-cutter colonies are divided into big ants, which carry the leaves home, and little ants.

Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

Leaf-cutter colonies are divided into big ants, which carry the leaves home, and little ants.

Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009

Leaf-cutter ants have defoliated our peach trees, rose bushes, potato fields and tree plantation seedlings.

8: Plant protection and pest control 1996

It differs from that of the Leaf-cutter bee in having four spines on the end of the body.

Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872

The Leaf-cutter bee (Megachile) may be seen flying about with pieces of rose-leaf, with which she builds, for a period of twenty days, her cells, often thirty in number, using for this purpose, according to Mr.F. W. Putnam's estimate, [32] at least one thousand pieces!

Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872

The smallest parasite, belonging to the genus Anthophorabia, so called from being first known as a parasite on another bee (Anthophora), is a minute species found also abundantly in the tight cells of the Leaf-cutter bee.

Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872

When the Leaf-cutter bee wishes to cut out a piece of a leaf (Fig. 25) she alights upon the leaf, and in a few seconds swiftly runs her scissors-like jaws around through it, bearing off the piece in her hind legs.

Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872

The figures of the early stages of a minute ichneumon represented on the same plate (Fig. 7, larva, and 7_a_, pupa, of Anthophorabia megachilis) which is parasitic on Megachile, the Leaf-cutter bee, illustrates the transformations of the Ichneumon flies, the smallest species of which yet known (and we believe the smallest insect known at all) is the

Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872

Both sexes of the Humble bee, the Leaf-cutter bee, and other smaller genera abound during the warm days.

Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872