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Ix preparing this little book the aim has been to make it generally useful to different classes of readers. Beginners in the study will find in it copious directions for collecting and preserving insects, how to form cabinets, how to mount insects for the microscope, and how to prepare them for study, as well as guides to the literature containing the description of species. While amateurs and dilettanti entomologists may find useful hints, the needs of those who wish to make a serious study of these animals have not been overlooked, and it is hoped that the book will be of some service in leading such students to pay more attention to the modes of life, transformations, and structure of insects than has yet been done in this country. The book is also designed as a hand-book for the farmer, the fruit-grower, and the gardener. Besides treating of the vlements of the science and the means of ascertaining to what order and family their insect pests belong, the reader is referred to descriptive works and reports for fuller information, while Chapter V. gives the fundamental principles of Economic Entomology, with brief accounts of the more injurious insects and the natural and artificial means of checking their attacks. On account of the prominence given to this topic it is hoped that the book will, with its copious glossary, be serviceable to agricultural editors and useful as a text-book in agricultural schools and colleges.(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 Excerpt: ...just above the legs is succeeded by a dark one, then a light one edged with two thread-lines; while the upper part of the body is dark, with an interrupted white thread running along the middle of the back. The moth is rusty, grayish-brown, sprinkled with black specks; and the species is called unipuncta from the single white discal dot of the fore wings. Remedies.--The best preventive remedy is to burn meadows and grass-lands, where the eggs are laid, in autumn. When the armies are in motion and threaten a field of wheat, the latter should be protected by a deep trench with steep or undermining sides, in which fires are kindled or kerosene is poured. The use of the ditches may be supplemented by dusting the grass or wheat for a few feet on each side of the ditch with Paris green. The Wheat-head Army-worm (Leucania albilinea).--This caterpillar injures the heads of wheat, rye, and barley, beginning at the base, sometimes at the centre of the ear, sometimes hollowing out the soft grains, leaving nothing but the shell and the chaff. The caterpillar is like the foregoing species, but is striped with sulphur-yellow and light and dark brown lines. The insect is common from Maine to Kansas. The Wheat Thrips (Tlirips striates Osborn, Fig. 58).--This is an exceedingly minute, active, long, narrow, leaping insect of a bright yellow or shining black color, occurring in numbers on the heads and stalks in June and July, puncturing and thus exhausting the juices of the kernels, and rendering them dwarfish and shrivelled. Another kind common on wheat in New York, in June, is the threebanded Thrips (Coleothrips trifasciata Fitch). Other wheat-insects are certain species of Oscinis,Chlorops, and Meromyza, which injure the stalks.and leaves. The roots are eaten by tho white...

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