Locustidae

Indusium: the case made by an insect larva: a membranous layer of the embryo of Locustidae below the serosa.

Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith

I replace the worthless carcase by two small Locustidae.

More Hunting Wasps Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

My Locustidae are not victims at the same time living and inert, operated upon according to the delicate method of the insects that paralyse their prey; they are corpses, procured by a brutal crushing of the head.

More Hunting Wasps Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

Fed on Locustidae, a diet unknown to its race, the larva passes through its several stages without any more difficulty than its brothers and sisters fed on Flies.

More Hunting Wasps Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

It was thus that I reared the Tarsal Bembex, which eats Anthrax-flies and other Diptera, on young Locustidae or Mantidae; the Silky Ammophila, whose diet consists chiefly of Measuring-worms, on small Spiders; the pot-making Pelopaeus, a Spider-eater, on tender Acridians; the Sand

More Hunting Wasps Jean-Henri Fabre 1869