. Annual report of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University and the Agricultural Experiment Station. New York State College of Agriculture; Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). IIQ-2 Rural School Leaflet. LADY BEETLES Anna Botsford Comstock ERSONS who do not know about the small brothers of the fields have an idea that all insects are injurious to our human in- terests. This, however, is a very unjust view; there are many insects that spend their whole lives doing us favors, even though we show no gratitude. Some of these
. Annual report of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University and the Agricultural Experiment Station. New York State College of Agriculture; Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). IIQ-2 Rural School Leaflet. LADY BEETLES Anna Botsford Comstock ERSONS who do not know about the small brothers of the fields have an idea that all insects are injurious to our human in- terests. This, however, is a very unjust view; there are many insects that spend their whole lives doing us favors, even though we show no gratitude. Some of these beneficial insects belong to the family of lady- birds, as these small beetles are called. In fact, all except one or two members of this family are very friendly indeed to the gardener, the fruit-grower, and the farmer; for, instead of feeding on plants, they feed on the plant lice and the scale insects that infest plants. The ladybirds, or ladybugs, are small beetles that look like pills of various sizes cut in half with legs attached to the flat side. Some species are brownish red with black spots; some are black with reddish or yellowish spots. Throughout the land, whenever a country child sees one of these ladybird beetles, he addresses it thus: " Ladybird, Ladybird, fly away home, Your house is on fire, your children will ; But ladybird is not at all frightened at this piece of news, because she does not know where her children are, and I am afraid she would not know one of them if she met it. She performed her last duty to her family when she laid a cluster of yellow eggs on the underside of a leaf of some plant infested with plant lice or scale insects; and from every one of these eggs hatched a little creature that is very different in appearance from its mother. It is a long, rather flat, velvety creature, covered with warts and short spines, and black or brownish black in color ornamented perhaps with some bright-colored spots. It moves around briskly
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