INDEX 



Adhesives, 295 

 Air-slacked lime, 294 

 Angoumois grain moth, 242, 



302 

 Animal feeders on insects, 131 

 Anopheles and malaria, 204 



habits, 2 1 1 

 Ant guests, 128 



lions, 89 

 Ants and plant lice, 125 



and Scutellista, 127 



as scavengers, 190 



domestic economy, 125 



in houses, 242 

 Aphelinus on scales, 119 

 Aphis lions, 89 

 Apple borers, 65 

 Argentine ant, 245 

 Arsenate of lead, 274 

 Arsenical poisons, 274 

 Asiatic lady-bird, 107 

 Asilidse, no 



Balance of nature, 249 

 Banding, uses of, 298 

 Bark-beetle injury, 70, 268 

 Barriers to canker worms, 298 

 Bat-tick, 183 

 Bean weevils, 66, 261 

 Beaver parasite, 161 

 Bed-bugs, 229 

 Bee disease, 151 



flies, no 



habits, 26 



products, 195 

 Bees as pollenizers, 25 



Beetles as borers, 267 



as parasites, 96 



as pollenizers, 36 



injury by, 58 

 Bill bugs, 259 

 Bird lice, 160 

 Birds vs. insects, 133 

 Bisulphide of carbon, 304 

 Biting lice, 159 

 Black beetles, 227 



flies, 167 

 Blastophaga on figs, 31 

 Blister beetles, 97, 197 

 Blood of insects, 10 

 Blow-fly, 175 

 Blue-bottle fly, 174 

 Body louse, 156 

 Boll -worm, 263 

 Bombyliid^E, no 

 Book lice, 221 

 Bordeaux mixture, 275 

 Borers as food, 197 



protections from, 297 

 Boring caterpillars, 266 

 Bot-flies, 176 

 Bran and arsenic, 297 

 Breathing of insects, 10 

 Breeding of insects, 1 5 

 Bristle-tails, 219 

 Bruchidje, 66, 261 

 Buffalo gnats, 166 



moth, 233, 234 

 Bumble-bees and clover, 25 

 Buprestida;, 60 

 Burying beetles, 188 

 Butterflies as pollenizers, 34 



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