hNSECTS INFESTING THE ALMOND TREE. 



CHAP. 



The Red Spider {Tetmnydiux telarius) 149 



The Almond Aphis (Aphix amygdaU) ISO 



The following insects also infest the Almond 

 tree: 



The Greedy Scale {Aspidiotiu rapax). 



The Branch and Twig^-burrcwer {Polycaon 



iiinfertus). 

 The Buffalo Tree-hopper (CereM bubalus). 

 The Yellow Mite. 



CHAPTER CXLIX. 



The Red Spicier. (Cal.) 



( Tetranhhu.'i icUiriw*. — Linn.) 



Class, Arachniida ; ^ -r, -i m 



o 1 'i . ' [ Family, Trombidid,^. 



hiil^-elass, AcARTNA ; ) •' 



[A small red mite, infesting the trunk, limbs, ami foliage of 

 fniit trees and nursery stock, and also garden and hot-house 

 plants.] 



The red mite (Fig. 222), commonly called the " red spider," 

 may be said to be a universal pest of the orchard, garden and 

 hot-house, and has been allowed to spread to an alarming 

 extent in orchards in this State. Although a feeder on nearly 

 all varieties of deciduous fruit trees, and also on citrus trees, 

 the almond seem to be the wopst infested by this species. 



Fig. 222. — Red Spider, adult — color, reddish. Fig. 222. 



The perfect mites have eight legs ; form, 

 ovate; length, one sixtieth of an incli ; color, 

 various, sometimes brick-red, rust-red, or 

 greenish, dotted with red; head, yellowish. 



The egg when first exposed is colorless, but 

 changes to a bright red ; in form it is round, 

 and measures one onc-hundred-an»l-l"ortieth of 

 an inch in diameter. 



I have no reason to change my opinion ex- 

 pressed in 1881, in my " Insects Injurious," etc., that the female 



