. Recent additions to the list of injurious insects of Canada [microform]. Insects pests; Agricultural pests; Insectes nuisibles; Ennemis des cultures. 218 ROYAL SOCIKTY OF t'ANADA no/zlrs, ^^Uu^^ will allow ni ihr u^r ..I' a mmiimim ,|uanlily i>\' a suitaM.' so that im injury may 1h' donu it 1,1 the Inlia-v MvatiMl, 'vliilr at llic same imic ilic maraiulino- insects are (Irstriiycil. Tlu' San .)n>{' Sralc (.1 >â /)/(//"/('^ ii<-niiri,K<tis, ('(.iiistk.).âl-'ry fruit sliiiipcrs in 18T;!. from the jiiace in California wliere it was tirst n
. Recent additions to the list of injurious insects of Canada [microform]. Insects pests; Agricultural pests; Insectes nuisibles; Ennemis des cultures. 218 ROYAL SOCIKTY OF t'ANADA no/zlrs, ^^Uu^^ will allow ni ihr u^r ..I' a mmiimim ,|uanlily i>\' a suitaM.' so that im injury may 1h' donu it 1,1 the Inlia-v MvatiMl, 'vliilr at llic same imic ilic maraiulino- insects are (Irstriiycil. Tlu' San .)n>{' Sralc (.1 >â /)/(//"/('^ ii<-niiri,K<tis, ('(.iiistk.).âl-'ry fruit sliiiipcrs in 18T;!. from the jiiace in California wliere it was tirst noticed, it was lint till isSd that I'rof. C'omstofk jiointi'd out the ^;reat loss which it was causiiin' and u'ave it the sju'citic name of />crni<'i"siit;)4 the tirst Canadian specimens WC'J received tVom near Kelowna, on Fiiike Okanagan, British Colnm- liia. (Fiirmcr'.< Adrarale, J,ondon, Dec. IMIl). 'J'iie trees wciv deslrovcd. and it was not until ISDC. that the iu-^ect wtis again round injuring fruit trees, this time in two localities on Vancouver Maud, i'.y the destructi(ui of the trees this iin|H,rtation was again entirely wiped out, and no fiirlhor aiipearancc of the San Jose Scale in IJritish Columhia has so far oc- cur'-ed. The history of the San .lose Scale as an injurious fruit pest in Canada hcgins willi the spring of IS'.'^. wlicn in the month of Janu- ary, specimens were found at Chatham, Kent Co., Ontario, and soon afterwards near Niagara, in Lincoln County. Since that time its injuries and the ofl'orts which have been made by tlio Federal and Provinci'al (lovernmeiits have been a subject of absorbing interest and will. I fear. c(uitinue to be so for some time to come. As yet. no prac- tical remedy suitable for general applicatiim by the ordinary fruit grower has been discovered, althoivh fumigation with hydrocyanic acid gas. a dangerous oiw-ration with most poisonous materials, has proved elTectivc in tho hands of s
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