THE CLOVER MITE. 



NATURAL EXEMIES. 



The insect enemies of this mite, so far as recorded, are very few. 



October 28, 1880, Mr. Pergande reared one of the common clothes 

 moths {Tineola lisellieUa Hiibn.) from small caterpillars that he 

 had observed to feed upon the eggs. 



Mr. Welclon ^ gives as enemies of the red spider {Tetranychus 

 I'imaculafus Harv.) a minute black lady-beetle. Scymnus punctum 

 Lee. (fig. ?>) and lace-winged flies. As there are many species of 



Fig. 3 — Scymnus punctum, a lady-beetle enemy of the clover mite: a. Egg; 1), larva; 

 Cj pupa ; (1, adult. All mnch enlar.u:ed. n, b, c. Redrawn from Weldon ; d, original. 



the Scymnus and of lace-winged flies, it is not at all unlikely that 

 some of them prey upon the clover mite. 



Approved : 



James Wilson, 



Secretary of Agriculture. 



Washington. D. C, April 18, 1912. 



^ Loc. cit,. p. 1 2. 



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