. The insect and other allied pests of orchard, bush and hothouse fruits and their prevention and treatment . Insect pests; Fruit. 402 /».srf/ Pesis. lino- 2 or 3 inches wide of these creatures uuderueath the paper, so It appears the band is a great liarliour for ; In the same year a nurseryman, writing from Woking, stated "that plums and young standard apples are cox'ereil with tlie ; Informa- tion sent thai they were not injurious Ijrought tlie following replv : " I have very caiefuily watched them on the trees, and I believe your statement to be quite corre
. The insect and other allied pests of orchard, bush and hothouse fruits and their prevention and treatment . Insect pests; Fruit. 402 /».srf/ Pesis. lino- 2 or 3 inches wide of these creatures uuderueath the paper, so It appears the band is a great liarliour for ; In the same year a nurseryman, writing from Woking, stated "that plums and young standard apples are cox'ereil with tlie ; Informa- tion sent thai they were not injurious Ijrought tlie following replv : " I have very caiefuily watched them on the trees, and I believe your statement to be quite correct as to their being, if anything, beneficial; tliev ^\â ere feeding on tlie green growth of tlie trees, and were only found wliere tliere was any to feed ; Tlie red ova. of these mites were also received from IJoss, on apple, pear and plum in the same year, where ilr. Getting informed me lliey were appearing in great numliers. The globular jjrick-dust shiny red eggs are deposited in masses side liy side, often giving tlie trees a rusty- red a]ipearance. The date of hatching seems yariable. In l'.i04 eggs were sent from Hereford on the liOth of ]Mareh. In the same year they had all hatched in Kent early in the montli (o). They still further increased in Kent in I'.IOG (4), when they occurred in countless numbers in ^â ery many orchards. They wore noticed at ]\IardL'n occurring in masses under the bark of apple trees in November, also in many localities around J\Iaidstone and in Thanet, and also near Malvern. Ornierod(o) refers to 0. hi/iii/nriii as occurring in vast numbers on the stems of A'yli'borus-mi'tjsted trees, and suggested that they might be preying upon the " Amlirosia " fungus of the beetles, and thus would be acting beneficially. Speaking generally, we may say that these acari are FIG. ^70. â \R\A1. , MtTFS [Orilnllitl^,]. (Eiil;,'rd.) (1) Theohahh F. V. Journal S. Agricultural Collci^e, No. 6. p.
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