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Aldrich, C: Value of the house wren as 
#n insect destroyer. (Amer. nat.. April 
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The house tren [troglodytes aedon| should be en- 
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[ Boston (Mass.) meeting (1880)].  Annu- 
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Contains S: H. Scudder’s ‘‘ Problems in entomology” 
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[ Ants, Notes on.] (Free religious index, 10 
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[Bees on gerardia pedicularia. | (Bull. 
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Bell, James Thompson. How to destroy 
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Successful use of a mixture of potassic cyanide 
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[Blatta orientalis.] (Journ. applied sci., 
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Bottner, Hermann. Der Bienenfreund. Ein 
einfacher leicht verstandlicher Unterricht 
in der Bienenzucht. Durch 92 in den Text 
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Bug as an element in food (The). (Spring- 
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Bunker, Robert. Hints on _ collecting, 
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of attracting insects by ‘‘ sugar” and otherwise, of rear- 
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Caspary, Robert. Ueber die Nektarien der 
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