38 DESTRUCTIVE INSECTS OF VICTORIA. 



Remarks. 



A tube of fungus will make a basin of bread fungus, 

 and the fungus growth on the bread will make many 

 glasses of water fungus, or basins of bread fungus. If 

 the weather is moist at time of infection results should 

 ensue in at least a week, if dry it may take three or even 

 four weeks. For locusts in the flvina: or full-o-rown 

 stages the water fungus is the proper treatment, and is 

 also splendidly ■ adapted to the hopping stage as well. 

 Locusts die some distance away from place of infection, 

 generally in a south-east direction. They turn a liver- 

 colour when dead, and will be found along ditches, in 

 grass, and depressions of the ground, in clusters and 

 singly, depending whether swarms are large or small. 

 The best results can be obtained by frequent infections 

 in various places, as the insects are easily destroyed in the 

 early stages. 



