. Common insects affecting fruit-trees [microform]. Insect pests; Fruits; Insectes nuisibles; Fruit. Fig. 48. Terrapin Scale (Kulrranium nigrofanriutum). Adult femalea on ?wig of peach; enlarged about three timM ( Sanden, V. H. Dept. Agr.). It attacks a iarjje number of wild and cultivated trees and shrubs, and is especially injurious to peach trees. As it will readily spread from one tree to another, it is important that any wild trees found to be infested should be cut down and burnt at once. The only remedy for the insect when it attacks fruit-trees is to spray with kerosene emulsion i
. Common insects affecting fruit-trees [microform]. Insect pests; Fruits; Insectes nuisibles; Fruit. Fig. 48. Terrapin Scale (Kulrranium nigrofanriutum). Adult femalea on ?wig of peach; enlarged about three timM ( Sanden, V. H. Dept. Agr.). It attacks a iarjje number of wild and cultivated trees and shrubs, and is especially injurious to peach trees. As it will readily spread from one tree to another, it is important that any wild trees found to be infested should be cut down and burnt at once. The only remedy for the insect when it attacks fruit-trees is to spray with kerosene emulsion in the fall and winter or in early spring before the leaves come out. The Peach-Tree Borer {Sanuinoidea exitiosa). Fig 49. Unlike the borers already referred to. this insect is not the grub of a beetle, but the caterpillar of a moth. Next to the San Jos^ Scale, it t kes rank as the worst enemy that the peach-growcr has, and prior to tht arrival of the scale destroyed more trees than all other causes combined. The parent moths are very pretty creatures; the male has a steel-blue body with Fig. 49. Peach-tree Borer: 1, female moth; 2, male moth. golden-yellow markings and clear transparent wings which expand about an mch; the female is considerably larger and totally different, the body bemg more than twice as thick, of a similar {flossy stcct-blue color, but crossed with a brilliant band of orange; the fore wings, which expand an mch and a half, are opaque and steely-blue like the body, while the smaller hind wings are transparent with a margin of scales of the same m. 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 Bethune, Charles J. S. (Charles James Stewart), 1838-1932; Jarvis, Tennyson D; Ontario. Dept. of Agriculture. Toronto : Dept. of Agriculture
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