. Insect pests and plant diseases : containing remedies and suggestions recommended for adoption by farmers, fruit-growers, and gardeners of the province . Pests; Fungal diseases of plants; Insect pests. Natural Cut-worm Lion. Black Ground Wasp. Grasshoppers and locusts {Acrididce) are reported from Kamloops, Lytton, Ashcroft, Columbia Valley, Fort Steele, Nicola, Tobacco Plains, East Kootenay, Grasshoppers. Louis Creek, Adams Valley, in the interior, and from Surrey Centre, Sardis, Agassiz and Vancouver Island, in the lower country. These grasshoppers, or locusts, are of several dif
. Insect pests and plant diseases : containing remedies and suggestions recommended for adoption by farmers, fruit-growers, and gardeners of the province . Pests; Fungal diseases of plants; Insect pests. Natural Cut-worm Lion. Black Ground Wasp. Grasshoppers and locusts {Acrididce) are reported from Kamloops, Lytton, Ashcroft, Columbia Valley, Fort Steele, Nicola, Tobacco Plains, East Kootenay, Grasshoppers. Louis Creek, Adams Valley, in the interior, and from Surrey Centre, Sardis, Agassiz and Vancouver Island, in the lower country. These grasshoppers, or locusts, are of several difierent varieties, the most common one in the interior probably being Melanoplus atlanis (Riley). Dr. Fletcher says: " The large amount of damage annually wrought by locusts is seldom appreciated. Their habits are to frequent grass lands, where a large proportion of the crop may be consumed without making much diflFerence in the appearance of the fields. It is only after hay is cut, or in seasons of unusual drought, that locust injuries are much noticed. If, however their numbers at all times and their voracity are considered, it will at once be seen that they' must every year destroy much produce. They do not develop wings until July, and previous to that they pass most of their lives low down among the stems of grasses. Besides locusts there are many other forms of grass-feeding insects which every year levy a heavy toll unnoticed The use of hot, ??^^'' ™'V' *^' ^® *° ^ ^^""S® measure controlled by the use of machines called per-dozers. hopper-dozers, or 'tar-pans,' which were invented in the West some years ago at the time of the so-called 'locust invasions.' Prof. Herbert Osborn of Iowa, writing on means of destroying grasshoppers, says:—'In meadows and pastures,'we believe the use of the hopper-dozer the most practical plan that can be recommended In many cases It can be used to capture these and the leaf-hoppers at the same time, especially If used wh
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