. Report of observations of injurious insects and common farm pests, during the year ... : with methods of prevention and remedy . ld get someuseful knowledge. The Apple twigs might be placed with their stemsin damp soil, or in water, under a wire gauze dish-cover (if no moreelaborate method of proceeding was followed); and though the eggsare too small to be noticeable individually, the little moths are largeenough to be seen hovering about the leaves or twigs, if these shouldprove to be the places chosen for egg-laying. If so, heavy spraying,even with water alone, or with a solution of soft-s
. Report of observations of injurious insects and common farm pests, during the year ... : with methods of prevention and remedy . ld get someuseful knowledge. The Apple twigs might be placed with their stemsin damp soil, or in water, under a wire gauze dish-cover (if no moreelaborate method of proceeding was followed); and though the eggsare too small to be noticeable individually, the little moths are largeenough to be seen hovering about the leaves or twigs, if these shouldprove to be the places chosen for egg-laying. If so, heavy spraying,even with water alone, or with a solution of soft-soap, or any otherordinary insecticide, applied at the time when the moths may benoticed to be most torpid, and also )tot strongly enough to hurt theyoung fruit, would probably do much good. It is greatly to be hoped that attention will be given to checkingthis attack, for it is evidently spreading, and is very injurious, andwhere it is settled in a district it cannot be got under as it shouldbe without action on the part of alt owners in the infested neigh-bourhood. 1900] ASH. Common Ash-bark Beetle. Hylesimis fraxini, Workings of Hylesinus fraxini, showing forked mother-galleriesgalleries from the sides. with larval The Hylesinus fraxini, popularly known as the Common Ash-barkBeetle, does mischief by means of its white footless fleshy grubs whichwork in the bark of Ash trees {Fraxinns excelsior), and though theyappear to have an especial preference for newly felled timber, yet theinfestation is also to be found in decayed or sickly trees, and sometimesin young trees. In these the attack is certainly mischievous by reasonof the galleries stopping the full flow of the sap; and though in felledtrunks the damage is little or none, they act as regular nurseries forrecurrence of attack. As the signs of the working in the bark arevery noticeable during a part of its progress by the quantity of wooddust thrown out by the beetles at the commencement of their burrow-ing operation
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