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Note on a Staphylinid (Coleoptera) Predator of Earthworms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

J. H. McLeod
Affiliation:
Biological Control Section, Entomology Laboratory, Canada Department of Agriculture, c/o University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C.

Extract

In August, 1953, the proprietor of an earthworm-propagating establishment in Vancouver, British Columbia, reported that her propagating boxes were infested with small, dark-brown beetles. Specimens of the beetles were identified by Professor M. H. Hatch, University of Washington, as of Quedius (Microsaurus) mesomelinus (Marsh.), Coleoptera, Staphylinidae.

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Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1954

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