. 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^ 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 Lowther, Granville, ed; Worthington, William, 1871-. North Yakima, Wash. , The Encyclopedia of Horticulture Corporation
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