. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. Fig 4 —Lady-Biki article to put the matter in a better (a) Larvae, (b) Empty pup» case, (c) Adult, light. Again his grasp of the subject was so faulty that the second article failed of its purpose and rather ten- ded to confuse than to clear the issue. As to the Barbados lady-bird, the case is this. In Barbados the term lady-bird is applied to a large sLowy weevil which is a v' ry serious pest of the sugar cane, while in all other parts of the English-speaking wrld, the insects known as ladj-bird beetles are lenefi
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. Fig 4 —Lady-Biki article to put the matter in a better (a) Larvae, (b) Empty pup» case, (c) Adult, light. Again his grasp of the subject was so faulty that the second article failed of its purpose and rather ten- ded to confuse than to clear the issue. As to the Barbados lady-bird, the case is this. In Barbados the term lady-bird is applied to a large sLowy weevil which is a v' ry serious pest of the sugar cane, while in all other parts of the English-speaking wrld, the insects known as ladj-bird beetles are leneficial insects See Fig 4. The insect which is commonly called the lady-bird in Barbados is more properly known as the root borer of the sugar-cane. The tech- nical name of this insect is Diap- repes abbreviatus, Linn. For mere than ten years it has been the canee of very serious injury to the grow- ing sugar-cane in many localities, and sugar planters have experienced severe los-'es in crop a« a result of its depre datiobs. So serious a pest has this insect become that a Commission has been appointed by His Excel- lency the Governor of Barbados to enquire into the root borer disi ase and the means of combating it. The root borer of the sugar cane is a weevil, and weevils as a whole are injurious . known as blights on lime and other citrus trees in Barbados, are attacked by all three kinds of natural enemies. The writer of the newspaper article referred to above had evidently been reading abint the introduction of a lady-bini into California, and of the success which attended the attempt to control a certain insect pest by this means, and he apparently thought that a ladybird is a lady-bird and a scale insect, is a scale insect, aud that all that had to be dono was to catch an insect called a lady-bird and compel it to eat some insects called scale insects. The Cottony Cushion Scale (Icerya purchasi, Maskell) was acci- dentally introduced into California, where it bec
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