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NOTES ON THE BIOLOGY OF STAGMOMANTIS CAROLINA. (ORTHOPTERA, MANTIDAE)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

R. A. Roberts
R. A. Roberts
Affiliation:
Iowa State Colrlege, Ames, Ia.
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My first work with the comrnon mantid, Stagmomantis carolina John began accidentally. One afternoon in early May, at Dallas, Texas, a number of egg masses of the mantid were placed on my desk for inspection. In looking them over I noticed that several had been parasitized and that in others the nymphs had already emerged. I paid very little attention to the unhatched eggs. The next morning May 7, 1927, my desk was covered with numbers of ungainly little brownish green creatures that raced madly about and made frantic efforts to hide behind books and papers. Thirty of these mantid nymphs were captured and placed under a glass lantern globe. A week later a second egg mass hatched. These two broods, together with a stray nymph I found, furnished me with material for observations throughout the summer.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 60 , Issue 9 , September 1928 , pp. 209 - 212
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1928

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