A handbook of the destructive insects of Victoria : with notes on the methods to be adopted to check and extirpate them . called by growers moss) being aspecially secure hiding-place for insects of all kinds, cleanthese off the trees at once, and, after having done so, 86 DESTRUCTIVE INSECTS OF VICTORIA. give the trees a tliorougli spraying, both against insectsand the resting spores of fungi, using the BordeauxMixture against the latter. And, having noted the habitsof this and other insects, we may be able to find out theirweak points, and, profiting by it, attack them accordingly. 88 DESTRUC


A handbook of the destructive insects of Victoria : with notes on the methods to be adopted to check and extirpate them . called by growers moss) being aspecially secure hiding-place for insects of all kinds, cleanthese off the trees at once, and, after having done so, 86 DESTRUCTIVE INSECTS OF VICTORIA. give the trees a tliorougli spraying, both against insectsand the resting spores of fungi, using the BordeauxMixture against the latter. And, having noted the habitsof this and other insects, we may be able to find out theirweak points, and, profiting by it, attack them accordingly. 88 DESTRUCTIVE INSECTS OF VICTORIA: PLATE IX. Harlequin Fruit-Bug (Dindymus versicolor).Fig. 1. Apple branch and frnit, the fruit showing signs of decay, where insects have pierced it. Natural size. (From nature.) 2. Adult female. Natural size. (From nature.) 3. Adult female. Natural size. (From nature.) 4. Adult female (underneath view). Natural size. (From nature.) 5. Larvffi about two-thirds grown. (From nature.) 6. Head, antennae, and proboscis. Magnified. (From nature.) 7. Section of fruit showing damage. (From nature.). % Y~ % T\^


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