. Agriculture of Maine. ... annual report of the Secretary of the Maine Board of Agriculture. Agriculture -- Maine. 148 AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. by holes in the leaves as shown in Fig. 31. The application of hot water would probably destroy a great many plant lice which are said to be doing considerable damage to the gooseberry bushes in the nursery rows in Aroostook county. Several natural enemies keep the currant worms in check. A small ichneumon fly is known to be parasitic on the eggs, and other species destroy the larva?. FIG. 33. The placid Soldier-bug shown in Fig. 33, a, enlarg
. Agriculture of Maine. ... annual report of the Secretary of the Maine Board of Agriculture. Agriculture -- Maine. 148 AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. by holes in the leaves as shown in Fig. 31. The application of hot water would probably destroy a great many plant lice which are said to be doing considerable damage to the gooseberry bushes in the nursery rows in Aroostook county. Several natural enemies keep the currant worms in check. A small ichneumon fly is known to be parasitic on the eggs, and other species destroy the larva?. FIG. 33. The placid Soldier-bug shown in Fig. 33, a, enlarged, and natural size below, is known to de- stroy them. This insect or one related to it is reported by Mr. E. W. Merritt of Houlton, Me., as feeding upon the larvae, piercing them with its short beak and then sucking them dry. This insect should not be destioyed. It may be known by the following description: Head, thorax and legs black; abdomen, red, with an elongated black spot in the middle, crossed by a white THE WHITE SCALE. Aspidiotus nerii, Bouche. Specimens of this insect were received upon leaves of the English Ivy. The plants were so badly infested that the leaves were nearly white with the scales. The lady sending the specimens stated that she had some time before placed leaves with the white spots on them, which came from a neighbor's, on a shelf near her plant, which would account for the attack. This insect attacks the orange and lemon trees in Southern California and Florida besides a num- ber of other trees and plants. The Fig. 34 we give shows an acacia twig infested by this insect, the scales showing natural 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 Maine. Board of Agriculture; Maine State Pomological Society. Annual report. Augusta
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