Pupa of the Cockchafer (Melolontha Vulgaris)

Description

"At the end of the third year it changes into a pupa, after having surrounded itself with a cocoon consolidated with a glutinous froth and some threads of silk."

Keywords

beetles, bugs, Coleoptera, insects

Galleries

Coleoptera: Beetles and Weevils

Source:

Hazlitt Alva Cuppy PH.D., Editor Beauties and Wonders of Land and Sea (Springfield, OH: Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick, 1895)

Courtesy the private collection of Roy Winkelman