Insect Life, Vol. 5: Devoted to the Economy and Life-Habits of Insects, Especially in Their Relations to Agriculture (Classic Reprint)

Riley, C. V.

ISBN 10: 0365390968 / ISBN 13: 9780365390961

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• Title: Insect Life, Vol. 5: Devoted to the Economy and Life-Habits of Insects, Especially in Their Relations to Agriculture (Classic Reprint)
• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0365390968
• ISBN 13: 9780365390961
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New
• Book Type: book

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Excerpt from Insect Life, Vol. 5: Devoted to the Economy and Life-Habits of Insects, Especially in Their Relations to Agriculture

Extracts from correspondence Color of a Host and its Relation to Parasitism - Fowls and Toads rs. Gar den insectsj - Bisulphide of Carbon against Grain Pests; Additional Correspondence - On Irrigation and its Effects on Insects - A tropical Honey Bee - A honey-producing Ant - The Jumping Bean again - A Boll Worm Crusher - vvax Moths in a Cupboard - On the Habits of some Blister-beetles - The Sweet-potato Root-weevil - A Weevil in Mullein Seeds - A new Enemy to Cypress Hedges in California Another vegetarian Mosquito - The Cluster Fly Household Pest Chrysanthemums and the Drone-fly - The Orange Fruit-fly in Malta Plant-bugs inj uring Oranges in Florida - fowis killed by Mole-crick ets - Roaches in Brazil - Screw-worms and the man-infesting Bot in Brazil - The Chipping Sparrow and House Wren as Insect Destroyers The Clover Mite in Houses again - A new Chicken Plague in Texas. Notes from correspondents general notes An Enemy of the Screw Worm Fly - The Archippus Butterfly eaten by Mice - Notes on some Insect Pestgf the Fiji Islands - Entomology at the Iowa State University - Local Names for common Insects - Legis lation against Spraying - An Exhibition of Spraying Machines - Eco nomic Entomology at the Cape of Good Hope - Parasites of Animals transmissible to Man - Further Illustrations of the Rose Slugs (illus trated) - Cockroach Egg Parasites - The Hymenoptera of Australia The Genus Mirax - An Important Paper on Butterflies - The Tobacco Sphinx iu Louisiana - Canker-worms in California - The Mediterranean Flour Moth in California - Tent Caterpillars in Massachusetts - Results of Codling Moth Legislation in Tasmania - A Vine Pest in Australia - The Sugar-cane Pin-borer again - The Mustard Beetle in Eng land - New Species and Genera of Rhynchophora - vvestward Spread of tho Clover-leaf Weevil - The larval Habits of the Acalyptrate Muscidae - A blood-sucking Chironomid - The Family Apioceridae The California Remedy for the San José Scale - Introduction of the Long Scale into California - Imported Scales in California - The Mem bracidae of North America - A new Enemy of the Tomato - An Insect Enemy of Lace Curtains - Locusts in South Africa - North American Species of Hippiscus - An extreme Case of Norway Itch - On Harvest Spiders - A curious Parasite of the Pelican - Proceedings of the Ento mological Society of Washington - Obituary - The Manna Scale - A curious Seed-pod Deformation - The Zebra Caterpillar on the Pacific Coast - Entomological Society of Washington.

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