. Gleanings in bee culture. v-er in my life noticed it before, and I would like toknow how many different kinds of insects andworms are capable of producing , O., June 30,1884. H. H. PEASE. Friend P., we are happy to be able to pre-sent an article from Trot. Cook on this verysubject, as yon see. THE MAPLE-BAHK LOUSE. EAR MR. EDITOR:—From very numeroiisfl ^1 inquiries as to name, habit, and remedies •egarding this louse, I have for some weeksntended to write you; but an overwhelmingamount of work has prevented, until yourletter drives me to it. Pres. E. Orton writes me thatt
. Gleanings in bee culture. v-er in my life noticed it before, and I would like toknow how many different kinds of insects andworms are capable of producing , O., June 30,1884. H. H. PEASE. Friend P., we are happy to be able to pre-sent an article from Trot. Cook on this verysubject, as yon see. THE MAPLE-BAHK LOUSE. EAR MR. EDITOR:—From very numeroiisfl ^1 inquiries as to name, habit, and remedies •egarding this louse, I have for some weeksntended to write you; but an overwhelmingamount of work has prevented, until yourletter drives me to it. Pres. E. Orton writes me thatthis insect is killing the soft-maples, and wishes aremedy. Mr. O. J. Terrill, from North Ridgeville,says they are affording much nectar, which attractsthe bees, and seems excellent, and wishes to knowif it is probably wholesome. The editor of the Cold-water (Michigan) Repuhlicon, as^is if there is anyway to save the maples. These are samples of ascore of inquiries coming thick frona Ohio, Illinois,Indhina, and DESCUIPTION. The maple-tree scale or bark louse {Pulviaariainnumcrahilis, Rath.) consists at this season of abrown scale about five-eighths of an inch long, whichis oblong, and slightly notched behind. On the backof the scale are transverse depressions, markingsegments. The blunt posterior of the insect israised by a large dense mass of fibrous cotton-likematerial, in wliich will be found about 800 smallwhite eggs. These eggs falling on to a dark surfacelook to the unaided eye like flour; but with a lensthey are found to be oblong, and would be pro-nounced by all as eggs at once. This cotton-likeegg-receptacle is often so thick as to raise the brownscale nearly a fourth of an inch. These scales arcfound on the under side of the limbs of the trees,and are often so thick as to overlap each there are hundreds on a single main branchof the tree. I find them on basswood, soft and hardmaple, and grapevines, though much the moreabundant on the maples.
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