. The encyclopedia of practical horticulture; a reference system of commercial horticulture, covering the practical and scientific phases of horticulture, with special reference to fruits and vegetables;. Gardening; Fruit-culture; Vegetable gardening. Fig. 13. The Golden Chalcid (Aphelinus dias- pidis Howard [Family Eulophidae]). The adults are exceedingly small and delicate, bright yellow insects. Common throughout the south part of California, though it prob- ably occurs in many central and northern sections. Parasitic upon red scale (Ghrysam- phalus aurantii) and rose scale (Aulacaspis rosa
. The encyclopedia of practical horticulture; a reference system of commercial horticulture, covering the practical and scientific phases of horticulture, with special reference to fruits and vegetables;. Gardening; Fruit-culture; Vegetable gardening. Fig. 13. The Golden Chalcid (Aphelinus dias- pidis Howard [Family Eulophidae]). The adults are exceedingly small and delicate, bright yellow insects. Common throughout the south part of California, though it prob- ably occurs in many central and northern sections. Parasitic upon red scale (Ghrysam- phalus aurantii) and rose scale (Aulacaspis rosae). when completed they are shipped to the packing house in the mountains. During the packing season one man is left in charge of the packing house, who attends to recleaning and resacking the insects. He then proceeds with the next step in the packing process, which is to pour the bugs from the sacks into an ingenious machine which counts them: they are counted, that is to say, by meas- urement. Dropping into a sort of hopper, made of tin and glass, they are measured as they pass through this machine (which is operated by a system of slides) into the shipping crates before^ Fig. 12. A Collector Coming into Camp with a Day's Catch. Each collector carries a sieve and wears rubber boots to keep out the snow. Fig. 14. The Two-Stabbed Ladybird Beetle (Ghilocorus Mvulnerus Muls). The adults are broadly oval and about three-sixteenths of an inch long. The color is shiny black with two round blood-red spots upon the wing covers. The extreme margins of the prothorax are pale. The under side of the abdomen is red. The larvae are very shiny, dark in color, with a yellow tranverse band across the middle. This is one of the na- tive ladybird beetles and is to be found in almost every part of California. The larvae and adults are voracious feeders upon the San Jose scale (Aspidiotus perniciosus), young of the black scale (Saissetia oleae), mealy bugs (Pseudococcus citri and P. l
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