. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Nov. 21,1907.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 4G3 The illustration accompanying this article (one by Louis Figuier) shows a magnified shoot covered with aphis. It will be observed that at the extremity of these insects are two small honey tubes. These are connected with a small gland that produces a sweet- fluid. This is con- tinually oozing out, and produces the honey-dew on plants, in which the soot fungus (Capnodium salicinum, Mont.) delights to grow, making the leaves of the tree appear as if soot had been distributed over them. The ant is s
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Nov. 21,1907.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 4G3 The illustration accompanying this article (one by Louis Figuier) shows a magnified shoot covered with aphis. It will be observed that at the extremity of these insects are two small honey tubes. These are connected with a small gland that produces a sweet- fluid. This is con- tinually oozing out, and produces the honey-dew on plants, in which the soot fungus (Capnodium salicinum, Mont.) delights to grow, making the leaves of the tree appear as if soot had been distributed over them. The ant is supposed to eat the aphis, but this is a mistake. The pre- sence of the ants indicates to the watchful man the presence also of the aphis or scale insect. The ant, by a process of milking, causes the aphis to exude more honey, which the ant takes for its own foot! and that of its young. Ants will also carry the aphis to pastures new, just. Magnified Shoot of Tree Covered with Aphis. (Ant shown Milking the Aphis.) as a farmer takes his cows to a new meadow. The remedies for this insect from the early summer onwards in thei season are quassia and soft soap, soft soap alone, soft soap and sulphide of potassium, paraffin emulsion, naphthaline, paraffin and soft soap fluid, and for some varieties spray- ings with Paris green or arsenite of soda. We believe the following formula, given as a coarse spray through the largest spraying nozzle, will be found effectual in most cases : — Potassium sulphide 1 lb., soft soap 7 lb. (the best), soft water 50 gallons. This has the merit of being a fungicide as well as an insecticide. The soap should be dissolved in hot water, also the sulphide, and be made up to 50 gallons with water at 90 deg. The mixture should be applied while hot and must be used as soon as made/1 NOTES BY THE WAY. [6898.] The "frame question" is again to the fore, and personally I am bound to admit that if obliged to use ten-frame hives I should be inclined to a
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