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I READ with much interest Mr. Pocock's article on “Solpuga” (NATURE, vol. lvii. p. 618). It may be worthy of note that a species of Galeodes is met not infrequently in Southern California, and is one of the few Arthropodous animals that is bold enough to attack and devour the honey-bee. It enters the hive and seizes the bee, worker as well as drone, and soon makes away with it. Were these Arachnoids as abundant as the Robber-flies (Asilidæ), they would be nearly as serious enemies of the bee-keepers of Southern California as are those insects. They are not, however, sufficiently numerous to do any serious mischief, and so are not feared or dreaded.
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COOK, A. The Nature and Habits of Pliny's Solpuga. Nature 58, 247 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/058247b0
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