Note 5 — Chapter xiv · THE BEMBEX
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
2. Bembex oculata, Jur. The Fly carrying the egg is most often a Sphærophoria, especially S. scripta; sometimes it is a Geron gibbosus. The later provisions include Stomoxys calcitrans, Pollenia ruficollis, P. rudis, Pipiza nigripes, Syrphus corollæ, Onesia viarum, Calliphora vomitoria,5 Echinomyia intermedia, Sarcophaga agricola and Musca domestica.6 The usual fare consists of Stomoxys calcitrans, of which I have many a time found fifty or sixty in a single burrow.