Collection of beetles

Description:

The box contains some beetles of various families and shows how great are the differences between these creatures. There are the glowworms, that is, the fireflies which emit light from their bodies on the summer nights; the species of the “Cleridi” with red stripes, living as a parasitic on the bees and wasps’ nests or eating the larvae of various insects of the wood; the beetles, which seem harmless and nice, but they are among the most ferocious carnivorous predators of aphids (plant parasites) and are very useful to agriculture; the “Eteridi and the “Buprestidae” which are instead among the most harmful insects to the plants. The “Capnodis” (and in the box there are
the most common species in the Madonie) dig tunnels in the trunk of pear, apple and other fruit trees, often causing their death.