. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. Fig. 14. ^ce Wing and Lady-bied. (a) Eggs, (b) Larva of Lace Wing; (c) Larva of Lady-bird. two lady-birds are not active enemies of scale insects, although feed upon them to some extent. The most energetic lady- bird enemies of scale insects are verj- small. There will often be found, on scale-infested limes and guavas, dark blue, brownish, or blackish lady-birds about " the size of a pin's head. These are very active, and if watched carefully, may be seen to capture and devour the young of scale inse
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. Fig. 14. ^ce Wing and Lady-bied. (a) Eggs, (b) Larva of Lace Wing; (c) Larva of Lady-bird. two lady-birds are not active enemies of scale insects, although feed upon them to some extent. The most energetic lady- bird enemies of scale insects are verj- small. There will often be found, on scale-infested limes and guavas, dark blue, brownish, or blackish lady-birds about " the size of a pin's head. These are very active, and if watched carefully, may be seen to capture and devour the young of scale insects, and even to force their way under the scale-cover- ing of the adult in order to get at the insect itself. The larva of a lady-bird is shown at Fig. U (c), and the eggs are represented at Fig. 13 (c). The family Coccinellidae includes, with very few exceptions, beneficial insects. Their habit of feeding on the worst kinds of insect Pio. 16. Root Bo term in accordance It has happened, articles which have A(jricuhural Xeim derstood by readers because they have word' lady-bird ' nexion with insects be injurious, the Agricultural m a k e an effort name lady-bird to those ^\hich,as has jilained, have the otherinsects. Atthe. any insect except Fig. 15. Weevil Boe- been already ex- er of Stgae-cane. habit of feeding on same tiuie it will be of great value if all the insects which have the front of the head jirolonged into a snout or beak could be spoken of, and thought of, as weevils, and the term weevil could always be made to mean a serious, or at least troublesome, pest. Two weevils of ordinary occurrence in these islands have already been mentioned and are figured on this page. The granary and rice weevils, which infest stored grains and food stufl's, figured in the Agricultural ^V('(/?>?, Vol. I,\,p. 26,Figs. 4 (a) and (d), are also of common occurrence in the West Indies. The fiddler beetle (Pracpodcs vittatus) is a weevil, the larva of which is a serious pes
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