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The leaf-footed plant bug is another destructive foe to 

 the orange, and also to the plum, rice, and many other 

 vegetable productions. The young are a bright yellowish 

 red, without the leaf-like extension to their legs that after- 

 ward appears. The adult is a curiously-shaped reddish 

 brown bug, having a long sharp beak, and a transverse, 

 yellowish white band across its wings ; when the latter are 

 raised, its back is seen to be flat and hollow, red in color, 

 with black spots ; its hind legs are oddly shaped like nar- 

 row leaves. It sucks the sap from tender shoots and ter- 

 minal branches, thus killing them outright. Mr. Ashmead 

 gives the only remedy known, of catching them in a but- 

 terfly net and scalding them. 



Grasshoppers and katydids are also destructive foes to 

 orange trees, devouring leaf after leaf in an incredibly 

 short time ; their quick, active movements make them 

 hard to deal with, and the best known weapons with which 

 to fight them are the birds and a flock of chickens and 

 guinea fowls in the grove. 



There is a large, beautiful butterfly that may be seen 

 every where in Florida from early spring to winter ; it is 

 black, with two yellow bands across its wings, formed by 

 a series of yellow spots. 



Under the rule of "Handsome is as handsome does," 

 the orange grower has reason to regard this beautiful in- 

 sect as hideous, since it and the orange dog or puppy are 

 identical. 



Whenever you see a little round egg sticking to an 

 orange leaf, crush it at once; the orange butterfly has 

 laid it there, and directly it will become a peculiarly 

 marked worm, with a large, head, from which it projects 

 red filaments, and opens its large mouth like a snarling 

 dog when disturbed, emitting a pungent odor. 



Until within the last year or two there were various 



