. Insects injurious to fruits. Illustrated with four hundred and forty wood-cuts. Insect pests. Fig. polished black wing-cases with a blood-red spot on each. Its larva, a bristly-looking little creature (Fig. 34), of a grayish color, is very active, and devours large numbers of the lice; the p rfect beetle also eats them. The bark-lice and their eggs are devoured also by some of our insect-eating birds. During the winter the trees should be ex- amined and the scales scraped off, and thus a large proportion of the insects may be destroyed. Still, it is almost impos- sible to cleanse the tr
. Insects injurious to fruits. Illustrated with four hundred and forty wood-cuts. Insect pests. Fig. polished black wing-cases with a blood-red spot on each. Its larva, a bristly-looking little creature (Fig. 34), of a grayish color, is very active, and devours large numbers of the lice; the p rfect beetle also eats them. The bark-lice and their eggs are devoured also by some of our insect-eating birds. During the winter the trees should be ex- amined and the scales scraped off, and thus a large proportion of the insects may be destroyed. Still, it is almost impos- sible to cleanse the trees entirely in this way, especially the smaller branches; and hence the insect should be fought also at the time when the eggs are hatch- ing and the young lice crawling over the limbs, as then they are tender and easily killed. With this object in view, the time of hatching of the remnants left after the winter or spring scraping should be watched, and, while the young larvse are active, the twigs should be brushed with a strong solution of soft-soap and washing-soda, as recom- mended under No. 2, or syringed with a solution of wash- ing-soda in water, made by dissolving half a pound or more. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Saunders, William, 1836-1914. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & Co
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