. Injurious insects of the orchard, vineyard, field, garden, conservatory, household, storehouse, domestic animals, etc., with remedies for their extermination . n damp herbage. As before stated, these internal parasites are supposed to bethe cause of rot in sheep, though many persons are inclinedto believe they are a consequence rather than a cause ofdisease. But all appear to agree that this disease is connectedwith the condition of the soil, or the state of weather, moisturebeing the element most likely to produce it. This corre-sponds exactly with the theory of its life history which I hav
. Injurious insects of the orchard, vineyard, field, garden, conservatory, household, storehouse, domestic animals, etc., with remedies for their extermination . n damp herbage. As before stated, these internal parasites are supposed to bethe cause of rot in sheep, though many persons are inclinedto believe they are a consequence rather than a cause ofdisease. But all appear to agree that this disease is connectedwith the condition of the soil, or the state of weather, moisturebeing the element most likely to produce it. This corre-sponds exactly with the theory of its life history which I havepresented, and indicates the best means of preventing it, towit: Give them well-drained, open, airy pastures, and properprotection in damp and rainy seasons. It is more probablethe condition of sheep is often attributed to tins disease, whenit is due to other causes. INSliCTS INFHSTIXG THH APIARY. The Bee Moth (Galleria cereatia) Chap. l^Q CHAPTER CCL. The Bee Moth. (Cal.) (Galleria cerenna.—Fabricius.) Order, ; Family, Pyralid.^. [Living in silken tubes in bee-hives, and feeding upon thewax and young bees; a small grayish worm.] Fig. Fig. 368.—Bee Moth ; a, the worm or caterpillar—color, ashgray; c, the pupa—color, brown; d, the moth, with its wingsexpanded ; e, the same, with its wings closed—colors, gray andbrown ; b, the cocoon—color, whitish. This is by far the worst enemy with which the bee-keeperhas to contend. The female moth, if prevented from enteringthe hive, will deposit her eggs in cracks or any opening in thehives. As soon as hatched, the young worm (Fig. 368a) entersthe hive, and at once protects itself l)y spinning around itsbody a silken tube; as it increases in size it enlarges the tube,feeding the meanwhile upon the wax and young bees. When24 362 MISCELLANEOUS INSECTS. fully grown, it creeps into some corner of the hive, or intosome other sheltered place, and spins a tough white cocoon(Fig. 3686), intermingled with its own blac
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