Excerpt from The Canadian Entomologist, Vol. 13
This is a stout, hairy beetle (fig. I) which makes its appearance early in Spring, usually towards the end Of April or beginning Of May, flying about in open fields and about the borders of woods, with a loud buzzing sound, resembling that Of a bumble bee It belongs to the flower beetles, most of whom live on pollen.
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