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NOTES ON THE LARVA OF THE PITCHER - PLANT MOSQUITO

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Evelyn Groesbeeck Mitchell
Evelyn Groesbeeck Mitchell
Affiliation:
Washington, D. C.
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Since the discovery of Wyeomyia Smithiiin the leaves of Pitcher plants in New Jersey, by Dr.J.B. Smith, it has been reported from Massachusetts and Florida.

On June 16tg of the present year, the writer found a larva of the second stage in a Pitcher-plant in a greenhouse in the Botanical Gardens, Washington, D.C. July 8th, three more specimens were taken there The plants had been brought from South Carolina, and had been in the greenhouse for several Years.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 37 , Issue 9 , September 1905 , pp. 332
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1905

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