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Churchyard Beetle Churchyard Beetle.
cicada Cicadas are probably best known by the shrillsound made by the males.
Cicada This family of insects is famous for its chirping sounds.
Cicada "In America the cicadas have the general name of Harvest-flies; they are also often improperly called Locusts. There are several species, one of which, the Red-eyed cicada, C. septendicim, is remarkable on account of the popular notion that it appears only once in seventeen years, in the same locality, being supposed to pass the interval in its preparatory stages." — Goodrich, 1859
Cicada A full grown cicada fly.
Cicada The popular and generic name of certain insects belonging to the order Hemiptera, suborder Homopotera, of many species.
Cicada a, Ceresa bubalus, ovipositing in slits; b, the eggs; d, arranged as at c, old, scarred punctures shown at e.
Cicada The dog-day harvest-fly, Cicada tibicen.
Cicada The periodical cicada, pupa.
Cicada The periodical cicada, pupa-skin from which the adult has emerged.
Cicada The periodical cicada, the adult.
Cicada The periodical cicada, egg punctures.
Cicada Cicada egg punctures, freshly made.
Cicada Cicada egg punctures, old and distended.
Cicada Cicada egg punctures, from outside.
Cicada Cicada egg punctures, cut down on puncture to show the two chambers.
Cicada Cicada egg punctures, side view of an egg-chamber.
Cicada Cicada egg punctures, a pair of egg-chambers from which the eggs have been removed.
Cicada Pruinosa This species can be heard in summer and autumn at most any time making its peculiar trilling noise in the shade and forest trees.
Cicada Septendecim Also known as the Seventeen-Year Locust, derives its specific name from the fact that it makes its appearance in certain districts at stated intervals of seventeen years in immense numbers, when the millions of them, swarming on the forest and fruit trees, almost deafen the observer with their trilling calls to the female, and form an abundant feast to the swine, fowls, and wild animals on the land, and if near a river or lake, to the fishes in the water.
Cicindela Larva of Cicindela.
Cicindela Campestris and larvae "The common European species, Cincindela campestris, may be found flying and running around with great agility in the hottest sunshine. The larvae are of a singular form; they live in holes in the ground, maintaining themselves by a pair of hooks places on the enlarged eighth segment of their body, at such a height that their heads exactly occupy the mouth of the hole." — Goodrich, 1859
Cicindela Generosa Cicindela generosa insect.
Cicindela Purpurea Cicindela Purpurea insect.
Cicindela Repanda Cicindela Repanda insect.
Cicindela Scrutator Cicindela Scrutator insect.
Cicindela Sexguttata Cicindela Sexguttata insect.
Larva of cicindela campestris "The common European species, Cincindela campestris, may be found flying and running around with great agility in the hottest sunshine. The larvae are of a singular form; they live in holes in the ground, maintaining themselves by a pair of hooks places on the enlarged eighth segment of their body, at such a height that their heads exactly occupy the mouth of the hole." — Goodrich, 1859
Cidaria A genus of moths characterized by having oblique bands with acute angles across the front wings.
Nepa cinerea "The Nepa cinerea is a European example of this family, which may be met with there in every pond." — Goodrich, 1859
Common Cleg Bloodsucking flies that are very troublesome to horses and cattle, even man.
Click Beetle "Springing Beetles, Elateridae, are narrower and more elongate than the former, and their legs are so short that when they fall on their backs they are as unable to right themselves as a capsized turtle, but by bending the head and thorax backwards, and making use of the prolongation already described, they are enabled to spring to a height fully ten times their own length, and this operation they repeat until they fall on their feet. The noise which accompanies the springing process has earned for them the name of Click Beetles." — Encyclopedia Britanica, 1893
Click-Beetle Larva of the click-beetle.
Click-Beetle Adult click-beetle.
Cloth Moth A name to many common moths that are destructive to woolen fabrics, feathers, and furs.
Clothes Moth A clothes moth, Tinea pellionella species; adult moth.
Coccinella Coccinella insect.
Coccinella Ocellata Coccinella Ocellata, common name Eyed Lady-bird.
Cochineal A male cochineal insect.
Cochineal Cochineal, Coccus Cacti, on a cactus.
Cochineal An adult male bug.
Cochineal An adult female bug, with cottony masses removed.
Female Cochineal Insect "Cochineal is a dye-stuff employed in dyeing scarlet and crimson; consists of the bodies of the femals of a species of coccus, which feeds upon plants of the cactus family. The cochineal insect is a small creature, a pound of cochineal being calculated to contain 70,000 in a dried state."—(Charles Leonard-Stuart, 1911)
Male Cochineal Insect "Cochineal is a dye-stuff employed in dyeing scarlet and crimson; consists of the bodies of the femals of a species of coccus, which feeds upon plants of the cactus family. The cochineal insect is a small creature, a pound of cochineal being calculated to contain 70,000 in a dried state."—(Charles Leonard-Stuart, 1911)
Cock's-comb Cock's-comb gall on elm, Colopha ulmicola- an elm-leaf showing galls.
Cock's-comb Cock's-comb gall on elm, Colopha ulmicola- winter egg covered by the skin of the true female.
Cock's-comb Cock's-comb gall on elm, Colopha ulmicola- larva just hatched.
Cock's-comb Cock's-comb gall on elm, Colopha ulmicola- pupa.
Cock's-comb Cock's-comb gall on elm, Colopha ulmicola- winged ault.
Cock-chafer "In the common European Cock-Chafer, Melolontha vulgaris, they are of considerable length, especially the male, and fold up like the leaves of a fan. These insects fly well, but heavily, with a loud whirring noise; but they generally grawl slowly." — Goodrich, 1859
Cockchafer A European beetle in the family of dung beetles. It is also callled the May Bug.
Cockroach The common cockroach, male.
Cockroach The common cockroach, female.
Cockroach We are not, as a rule, very fond of cockroaches, and do all we can to get rid of them,(Wood, 1896).
Cockroach We are not, as a rule, very fond of cockroaches, and do all we can to get rid of them,(Wood, 1896).
Cockroach We are not, as a rule, very fond of cockroaches, and do all we can to get rid of them,(Wood, 1896).
Cockroach A common cockroach. Nocturnal in habit and are very troublsome in houses where they multiply and feed on food.
Common cockroach "Blattina includes the Cockroaches, the most noted species of which, the Black beetle or Common Cockroach, Blatta Orientalis, often swarms to such an extent in houses as to be complete nuisance." — Goodrich, 1859
Cocktails "The larvae are very similar to the perfect insects, both in appearance and habits. Many of them feed in carrion; others in rotton wood and other decaying vegetable matter. The number of joins in the tarsi varies greatly, but five is the prevalent number." — Goodrich, 1859
Cocoon Cocoon of the cecropia moth.
Codling Moth The codling moth, Carpocapsa pomonella species; moth with wings spread.
Coleoptera A fly.
Colias Hyale A butterfly of the Pieridae family.
Beetle, Colorado "The Colorado Beetle is a beetle first described by Thomas Say, in 1824, from specimens found by him near the Upper Missouri. The larva feeds greedily on the potato, and having attracted notice in Colorado for its ravages among the crops of that esculent in the territory, it moved eastward year by year, till in 1874 it had reached the Atlantic seaboard. It is popularly known as the potato bug."—(Charles Leonard-Stuart, 1911)
Conops A gnat or mosquito.
Conops Conops tibialis species.
Corisidae A family of insects.
Corn Aphis "Corn Aphis: a, natural size." — Chambers' Encyclopedia, 1875
Corn Beetle "Corn Beetle: a, larva, natural size; b, larva, magnified; c, perfect insect, natural dize; d, perfect insect, magnified." — Chambers' Encyclopedia, 1875
Two Spotted Corsair A carnivorous insect that lives in the branches of trees and bushes.
Corticaria Pumila Corticaria Pumila insect.
Cotton-boll worm, adult An adult cotton-boll worm, in the form of a moth.
Cottony Maple Scale A minute, two-winged fly, furnished with long anal filaments.
Cowan's Extractor "Cowan's four-frame Extractor; interior." — The Encyclopedia Britannica, 1910
Crambus Crambus vulvivagellus species; larva.
Crambus Crambus vulvivagellus species; b, larva; c, underground tube and cocoon; f, moth with wings at rest.
Crambus Crambus vulvivagellus species; moth with wings spread.
Cranberry-fruit The Cranberry-fruit worm of the Mineola vaccinii species; moth.
Crane-Fly Large flies with many-jointed, slender, thread-like antennae and scarcely shorter maxillary palpi.
Cremastograster Cremastogaster lineolata, large worker.
Cremastograster Cremastogaster lineolata, large worker.
Cremastograster Cremastogaster lineolata, female.
Cremastograster Cremastogaster lineolata, small worker.
Cricket A house-cricket
Cricket Also called the sand cricket.
Cricket Insects related to grasshoppers and katydids. They have somewhat flattened bodies and long antennae.
Locusta cristata "The migratory locust measures about two and a half inches in length, and some other exotic species are much larger; the Locusta cristata, a very beautiful species, common in the Levant, being four inches long, and between seven and eight in expanse of wings." — Goodrich, 1859
Croton The Croton Bug, adult form with wings spread.
Croton The Croton Bug, first stage.
Croton The Croton Bug, second stage.
Croton The Croton Bug, third stage.
Croton The Croton Bug, fourth stage.
Croton The Croton Bug, adult.
Croton The Croton Bug, adult.
Crown-borer Strawberry crown-borer of the Paria aterrima species.
Cryptocephalus A small beetle, about a quarter of an inch long. Usually a brilliant golden green color.
Cryptophagus A small beetle.
Cryptus A genus of ichneumon flies.
Cucujo Firefly "Filiform antennæ of cucujo firefly of Brazil."-Whitney, 1902
Culex Culex, a type of mosquito.

 

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