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Trombidium locustarum, the Locust Mite ITS 



Supposed eggs under grasshoppers' wings are of the above-named 

 mite, 179. Valuable service that it renders in destroying grasshopper 

 eggs, 180. Its transformations and habits, 180. Figured in its different 

 stages, 180. Reference to a detailed article on it, 180. Distributed over 

 the eastern, central, and western States, 180. Preys on the eggs and 

 perfect insect of the lesser locust, Melanoplus atlanis, in New Hamp- 

 shire, 180. 



INSECT ATTACKS — THEIR REMEDIES AND PREVENTIVES 181 



Remedies for the Peach-tree Borer 181 



Young peach trees more exposed to injury, 181 . Inquiry of the value 

 of a wood ashes remedy proposed, 182. Figures of the moths. 182, 

 183. Not a difficult insect to control by proper means, 182. Advan- 

 tage of cutting out the borer, 183. All peach orchards should be pro- 

 tected from attack, 183. Long period of egg-laying of the moth, 183. 

 The Bateham carbolic acid wash preventive, 183. When it should be 

 applied, 184. The Hale carbolic acid and Paris green wash, 184. 

 What it will accomplish, 184. Importance of hunting out and killing 

 the borer, and how to do it, 184. The larva, coccoon, and pupa 

 figured, 184. The Shaker peach-tree borer v^ash; preparation for, and 

 how it should be applied, 185. Protection from the borer by mounding, 

 185. A new tree-protector of wire netting, 185. Recommendation 

 quoted of treating infested trees with wood ashes above the roots, 186. 

 The safety of this application questioned, 186. Mr. Woodward's 

 method of protection, 186. 



An Ichneumonized Caterpillar — Interesting Case of Parasitism 186 



Inquiry of hop vine "worm," 186. Is an ichneumonized Sphinx 

 caterpillar, but probably not a hop vine feeder, 187. What the cocoons 

 on the body were and what they indicate, 187. Figure of an ichneu- 

 monized Dar (ipsa Myron, 187. The Sphinx parasite had again been 

 parasitized by another insect, 187. The first parasite, Apanteles con- 

 gregatiis, — the secondary one, an undetermined Chalcid, 187. The 

 other specimens inquired of may have been Grapta chrysalids, 187. 



A New Onion Pest, Agrotis ypsilon (Rott.) 188 



Inquiry from Canastota, N. Y. , of a formidable onion pest, 188. Its 

 injuries related, 188. Different from the onion pest of Orange coimty, 

 N. Y., 188. Is probably the Agrotis ypsilon cut- worm, 189. The cut- 

 worm and the moth it produces, figured, 189. Continued appearance 

 of the moth from May to September, 189. The larval injuries may 

 continue for an indefinite time, 189. Recommendation made for 

 destroying the caterpillars, 189. Hand-picking should be resorted to, 

 190. Kerosene emulsion applied while feeding at night w-ould be 

 effective, 190. Results obtained from a soft soap solution, 190. Prob- 

 abihty that this cut-worm is cannibalistic, 191. The bred moth gave 

 Agrotis 7jpsilon, 191. Length of its pupal stage, 191. 



