A handbook of the destructive insects of Victoria : with notes on the methods to be adopted to check and extirpate them . ty,from whom I have just received a letter informing methat, by a liberal use of the iron sulphate, he has been ableto keep his tomatoes and other vegetables quite clear ofboth insects and fungi. Mr. Crawford has made an estimate of the cost ofthe above solution, being, as he says, but a mere fractionof a penny per gallon. Luckily for the growers of pears and cherries thisslug is easily destroyed, so nothing else remains for us todo but to attack it persistently until we ha
A handbook of the destructive insects of Victoria : with notes on the methods to be adopted to check and extirpate them . ty,from whom I have just received a letter informing methat, by a liberal use of the iron sulphate, he has been ableto keep his tomatoes and other vegetables quite clear ofboth insects and fungi. Mr. Crawford has made an estimate of the cost ofthe above solution, being, as he says, but a mere fractionof a penny per gallon. Luckily for the growers of pears and cherries thisslug is easily destroyed, so nothing else remains for us todo but to attack it persistently until we have it withinreasonable bounds, w^hen, by a little united action, it caowithout a doubt, be stamped out altogether. 104 DESTRUCTIVE INSECTS OF VICTORIA: PLATE XII. RUTHERGLEN BuG (RhTPAKOCHROMUS ? SP.). Fig. 1. Branch of cherry tree with fruit, and with insects. Natural size. (From nature.) 2. Perfect insect; iinder view. Magnified. (From nature.) 3. Perfect insect; upper view. Magnified. (From nature.) 4. Head of adult insect. Magnified. (From nature.) 5. Adult insect. Slightly magnified. (From nature.) Plate XII Irifou^ail llm^fJVip THE RUTHERGLEX FLY-PEST. 105 CHAPTER XYIL THE RUTHERGLEN FLY-PEST. ( R/u/p a roch rom us sp.) Order : Hemiptera Heteroptera. Family : Lygicdcv. A small insect belonging to the so-called Wood Bugsowing, I snppose, to the fact of the common House Bugbelouoino; to the same natural order of insects. Thiscomparatively new pest is about two lines in length, thebody being of a light greyish-brown, but after nearly black. Antennae, or feelers, barely two-thirds the length ofthe body, and covered with fine hairs. Wings quitetransparent. Legs dirty yellowish white. Underneaththe insect (see Plate XII., Fig. 2) can be seen therostrum or beak, with which instrument the damage isdone by piercing the fruit as described hereafter. This Bug, the species name of which has not yet beendetermined, belongs to the family of Ly^iceche^ and closelyresembles
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