Annual report of the Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario, 1898 . was not confined to insects alone, but it contained avariety of creatures from batrachians and lepidopterous larvae to milksnakes and theireggs. And I might add that one of the most interesting methods of studying this mostinteresting subject is to watch the transformation and habits of the insects themselves,either in confinement, or as they occur in nature. As there is no class of society that is exempt from the losses and annoyance causedby insects, a knowledge of their life history and habits is important to all, but to non
Annual report of the Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario, 1898 . was not confined to insects alone, but it contained avariety of creatures from batrachians and lepidopterous larvae to milksnakes and theireggs. And I might add that one of the most interesting methods of studying this mostinteresting subject is to watch the transformation and habits of the insects themselves,either in confinement, or as they occur in nature. As there is no class of society that is exempt from the losses and annoyance causedby insects, a knowledge of their life history and habits is important to all, but to noneis it of greater importance than to the farmer and fruit-grower. During the past summer I received a great many letters enquiring about insectsaffecting a wide range of crops. To deal fully with all mentioned would necessitate writ-ing a book, but as the subject of this paper I have taken a few of the more common onesthat have been the most troublesome, and these, it will be noted, represent fairly wellmost of the orders into which insects are usually
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