. Farmers' foes and their remedies [microform]. Pests; Agricultural pests; Agricultural pests; Animaux et plantes nuisibles, Lutte contre les; Ennemis des cultures; Ennemis des cultures, Lutte contre les. 126 iH'xr yenr Hlionid \h> fed ntt iim liiti> iih |n)wII)I«> ..r iiiowhI iH-ror.' : |i, tlilH wny MmiU. luotlm will not Ik* tall «'tatloii on i, lantiN wlu'n laying tholr ?'»t«H.—fVc/cAf/-. I'KAR AXJ) ClIKHKY (Sihiiulrta ccniMi).. (Fio. 33.) This inswt passes the winter In the pupa state umler ground; the « the progenitors of
. Farmers' foes and their remedies [microform]. Pests; Agricultural pests; Agricultural pests; Animaux et plantes nuisibles, Lutte contre les; Ennemis des cultures; Ennemis des cultures, Lutte contre les. 126 iH'xr yenr Hlionid \h> fed ntt iim liiti> iih |n)wII)I«> ..r iiiowhI iH-ror.' : |i, tlilH wny MmiU. luotlm will not Ik* tall «'tatloii on i, lantiN wlu'n laying tholr ?'»t«H.—fVc/cAf/-. I'KAR AXJ) ClIKHKY (Sihiiulrta ccniMi).. (Fio. 33.) This inswt passes the winter In the pupa state umler ground; the « the progenitors of the mischievous brood of slugs. on the wh.« about the third week In May until the middle of June. The fly is of a ^'l.,ss- bla(-k colour, with four transparent wings, the front pair being crossed by a dusky eloud; the veins are brownish and the legs dull yellow, with bin. k th ghs, except the hind pair, which are black at both extremities, .lull yellow in the middle. The female fly is more than one-fifth of an inch Uma- the male is somewhat smaller. When the trees on which these flies are ,n work are Jarretl or shaken, or if the flies are otherwise disturbed, they fall to the ground, where, folding their antenmo under their bodies and bending the head forward and under, they remain for a time motionless. The female of this species begins to deixmlt her eggs early In June: thev are placed singly within little semi-circular incisions through the skin of the leaf, sometimes on the under side and sometimes on the upi^er. In a fortnight these eggs hatch. The newly-hatched slug Is at first white, but soon a slimy m.^tter «m/.e. out of the skin and covers the upper part of the with an ollve-colou, Btlcky coating. After changing its skin four times, it attains the length or half an inch or more, and Is then nearly full-grown. It is a dlHgustlng-lookini.' creature, a slimy, blackish, cr olive-brown slug, with the anterior part ..f its iHMly so s
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