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STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



RKMEDIKS. 



Thrips in general are classed with the sucking insects, and to kill tlieni we must 

 resort to contact insecticides. Kerosene emulsion, used at the rate of one part of the 

 emulsion (Hubbard formula) to ten of water, has been found to destroy them. Drench- 

 ings of cold water are said to be useful on a small scale, for all the members of tiiis 

 family thrive best in a dry atmosphere and soon succumb to continued moisture. 

 Whale-oil soap, used at the rate of one ])ound to four gallons of water, will no doubt 

 [irove a very good remedy. 



3. THE RIXG-LEGGED TREE BUG. 



(Brochymena annulata Fab.) 



Mr. John E. Hoag of Cannonsburg, Kent county, Michigan, reports the finding of 

 numbers of these interesting bugs (Fig. 4) in his peach and plum orchard, and while 

 no complaint of serious injury is made, the occunence is of interest because injury 

 has been done by this insect in other states. It has been reported two or three times 

 as working on apple trees, but never before in Michigan, so far as is known to the 

 writer, 'ihe insect is noticed here not because it is considered dangerous, but in 

 order to prevent anxiety if it should appear from time to time. It will no doubt 

 readily succumb to kerosene-emulsion or whale-oil soap in the usual proportions. 



Fig. 4. Ring-leggedTreeTiii^, Brofhi/meiw o)mulaffi. After Riley and Howard. Insect Life, Divi- 

 sion of Entfwnology, I'. S, l)ei)artiiieiit of Agriculture. 



