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INDEX. 



T. 



Tar to destroy Wasps iu their nests, 



270 

 Tenthredo testudinea, 35 

 Tetranychus rubescens ( = T. telarius, 



Duf.), 222, 223 



telarius, 217, 222 



Thomas, Dr. Friedrich, of Ohrdruf, 



observations by, on Bryobia nobilis 



and B. ribis, n. sp., 97, 'J8 

 Tobacco-water, 5, 57 



U. 



Umbrella (inverted) useful for jarring 

 down insects into, 44 



V. 



Vanessa polychloros, 50 ; web-nests 



should be cut off, 54 

 Vapourer Moth, Common, 135 — 137 ; 



life-liistory and description of, 135, 



136 ; wingless female, method of 



egg-laying of, 135 

 Vespidffi, 263 ; various British species 



of, 266, 267 



W. 



Wasps, Ground-building and Tree, 

 263—274 ; injuries to different kinds 

 of fruit by, 264, 265 ; numbers of 

 nests destroyed in various locali- 

 ties in 1893, 265; species of British, 

 266, 267 ; hybernation of, 268 ; me- 

 thod of nest building, 268—270; 

 autumn breaking up of the colony, 

 270; to destroy in their nests, 270 — 

 272 ; payments for collecting, 272 ; 

 hanging Wasps' nests, to take, 272, 

 273 ; methods of tra^jping Wasps in 

 bottles, etc., 273 ; applications to 

 relieve pain from stings of, 274 



"British Social, "observations, 



anatomical and general, of, by Edw. 

 L. Ormerod, M.D., of Brighton, 

 note, 270 



Web-nests of Pear Lyda, to destroy, 140 



Weevil, Apple-blossom, 45 



Black Vine, 210 



Clay -coloured, 210 — 216 ; 



habits of life of, 211 ; treatment to 

 get rid of, 212 ; at Strawberry plants, 

 213 ; methods of prevention and 

 remedy by jarring down, trapping, 

 &c., 214—216 



Downy Brown Leaf (see Ob- 

 long Leaf Weevil), 141 



Green Leaf, 141 



Nut, 116 



Nut Leaf, 118 



Oblong Leaf (or Downy Brown 



Leaf), 141 



Eed - legged, at Strawberry 



leaves, &c., 213, 214 



Winter Moth, 157—177; description 

 of, 158 — of eggs of, 159, — of cater- 

 pillars from date of hatching, 160, 

 161, — habits of, 161 ; grease-band- 

 ing, 162 ; kinds of grease, 164 ; to 

 protect bark from grease', 165 ; 

 80,000 Plum trees banded, 165; 

 grease -banding should be com- 

 menced early in autumn, 166 ; eggs, 

 to destroy with kerosine emulsion, 

 166 ; Evesham Fruit Experimental 

 Committee, 168 ; Paris-green, direc- 

 tions, etc., for use of, 169 — 174 ; 

 London-purple, 174 ; kerosine emul- 

 sion, 175 : knapsack sprayer, 176 



Wire to destroy wood-boring cater- 

 pillars, 20, 134 



Wood Leopard Moth, 132 — 134: many 

 kinds of trees attacked by, 132 ; to 

 destroy in their galleries, 134 



Woodpecker, Green, feeds on Goat 

 Moth caterpillars, 21 



X. 



Xyleborus dispar, 185 



saxeseni, 192 



xylographus, 192 



Z. 



Zeuzera assculi, 132 



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