. My garden, its plan and culture together with a general description of its geology, botany, and natural history. Gardening. broccoli, and in all probability cause the plants to produce them. Fig 1080, No. I, shows the small lives in this deformity, No. 2 the same magnified; Nos. 3 and 4 represent the pupa, No. 5 the winged insect in repose, and No. 6 the creature in the act of flying. There are other gnats which appear sometimes in little clouds; and in the hot summer hiemaiis. of 1870 many mosquitoes, the bites of which were very severe, visited our neighbo
. My garden, its plan and culture together with a general description of its geology, botany, and natural history. Gardening. broccoli, and in all probability cause the plants to produce them. Fig 1080, No. I, shows the small lives in this deformity, No. 2 the same magnified; Nos. 3 and 4 represent the pupa, No. 5 the winged insect in repose, and No. 6 the creature in the act of flying. There are other gnats which appear sometimes in little clouds; and in the hot summer hiemaiis. of 1870 many mosquitoes, the bites of which were very severe, visited our neighbourhood, and probably located themselves on the Sewage ground. At my garden some species constantly come out at dusk, after the midges have tormented us in the day-time. Gnats, and all other dipterous insects, have no sting at their tails like wasps, but bite with their mouths (fig. 1019, b, c). " When the sun shines, let foolish gnats make sport. But creep in crannies, when he hides his ; Shakspeare, Comedy of Errors. The celery and parsnip—but particularly the former—have been most seriously injured by the great Celery Fly {Tephritis onopordinis). The larvae live between the surfaces of the leaf (fig. 1081), and then eat the. Fig. ioSi. —Celery affected with leaf-mining Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smee, Alfred, 1818-1877. London, Bell and Daldy
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