A preliminary introduction to the study of entomologyTogether with a chapter on remedies, or methods that can be used in fighting injurious insects; insect enemies of the apple tree and its fruit, and the insect enemies of small grains . ined efforts do much injury. When these are foundupon young trees in the nursery, kerosene emulsion, if sprayed uponthem, will do much towards remedying the evil. THE TARNISH PLANT-BUG. {Lygus pratensis Linn.) Another of the insects that appears on almostevery list of insect enemies is the one figured here-with (Fig. 16). It is known as the Tarnish Plant-bug,
A preliminary introduction to the study of entomologyTogether with a chapter on remedies, or methods that can be used in fighting injurious insects; insect enemies of the apple tree and its fruit, and the insect enemies of small grains . ined efforts do much injury. When these are foundupon young trees in the nursery, kerosene emulsion, if sprayed uponthem, will do much towards remedying the evil. THE TARNISH PLANT-BUG. {Lygus pratensis Linn.) Another of the insects that appears on almostevery list of insect enemies is the one figured here-with (Fig. 16). It is known as the Tarnish Plant-bug, Lygus pratensk, and often is the cause ofconsiderable damage during early spring by gath-ering in great numbers upon opening buds andblossoms from which it sucks the vitality byinserting its beak and extracting the sap. It hi-bernates in all kinds of sheltered places, and as pi^ piamsoon as vegetation starts in the spring comes forth [Tfter^Kfieyr^^hungry and prepared for work. REMEDIES. Since it breeds on weeds of various kinds in large numbers, cleanculture is one of the best preventive measures that we can kerosene emulsion, if applied to the trees when the insect is at work,will also prove 150 INSECT ENEMIES OF THE
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