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11. Mallophaga (hair-eating) are the bird 

 lice. They do not suck like the hemiptera lice, 

 but bite off bits of feathers. 



12. Mecoptero (long-winged) include small, 

 wingless, shiny black insects which leap in the 

 snow, and the scorpion flies. 



13. Neuroptera (nerve-winged) contain the 

 ant-lions, which dig pits into which their prey, 

 the ants, fall. 



14. Odonaia (of uncertain meaning, from the 

 word for tooth) include the dragon flies or 

 "devil's darning needles," which destroy vast 

 numbers of mosquitoes. 



15. Orthoptera (straight-winged) include the 

 cockroaches, crickets, locusts, grasshoppers and 

 katydids, and the walking sticks. 



16. Plecoptera (plait- winged) are the stone 

 flies, whose nymphs, or young, are found on the 

 underside of stones in brooks. 



17. Siphonaptera (tubed, wingless) are fleas. 



18. Thysanoptera (tassel- winged) are thrips, 

 very small insects living on flowers and vege- 

 tables. 



19. Trichoptera (hair-winged) are the caddice 

 flies, which build houses of sand, pebbles or 

 wood in streams and ponds. V.L.K. 



Consult Kellogg' s Insect Book; Comstock's 

 Ways of the Six Footed; Foot's Insect Wonder- 

 land; Church's Flyers and Crawlers; Cragin's 

 Insect Friends and Foes; Howard's Insect Book; 

 Selous' Romance of Insect Life; Weed's Insect 

 World; Gibson's Blossom Hosts and Insect 

 Guests; Marks and Moody's Little Busybodies. 



Related Subjects. All of the important kinds 

 of insects are described in these volumes. The 

 reader is referred to the following articles, which 



include not only discussions of specific insects but 

 other articles of general interest : 



Ant 



Ant-lion 



Aphides 



Army Worm 



Bedbug 



Bee 



Blowfly 



Boll Weevil 



Botfly 



Brown-tail Moth 



Butterfly 



Cankerworm 



Carpet Beetle 



Chinch Bug 



Cicada 



Click Beetle 



Cockchafer 



Cockroach 



Codling Moth 



Cricket 



Death's-head Moth 



Deathwatch 



Dragon Fly 



Firefly 



Flea 



Fly 



Gnat 



Grain Beetle 



Grasshopper 



Gypsy Moth 



Hercules Beetle 



Hessian Fly 



Honey Locust 



GENERAL TOPICS 



Antennae Insecticides and 

 Beetle Fungicides 



Bug Larva 



Caterpillar Lepidoptera 



Chrysalis Metamorphosis 



Hemiptera Neuroptera 



Hornet Orthoptera 



KINDS 



Horse Fly 



Ichneumon Fly 



Jigger 



June Bug 



Katydid 



Lace-winged Flies 



Ladybird 



Leaf Insects 



Locust 



Louse 



Mantis 



May Fly 



Mealy Bug 



Mole Cricket 



Mosquito - 



Moth 



Potato Bug 



Scale Insect 



Scarab 



Scorpion Fly 



Sphinx Moth 



Stag Beetle 



Termites 



Tsetse Fly 



Tussock Moth 



Walking Stick 



Wasp 



Water Bettle 



Water Bug 



Weevil 



Wireworms 



Yellow Jacket 



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sekt'i sides, fun' ji sides. These v terms, which 

 appear rather technical, mean literally insect- 

 killers and fungus-killers. The farmer and the 

 gardener must be thoroughly acquainted with 

 them if control or extermination are to be 

 accomplished. For at every stage in their 

 operations, whether it be the young plant, the 



blossom, the maturing fruit or the seed that 

 they are watching, there are insect and fungus 

 pests ready to make care and labor of no avail. 

 Sometimes the same preparation is effective 

 against both kinds of pests, but there are some 

 effective for one and not for the other. 



Insecticides, or Insect-Killers. Some in- 

 sects, as caterpillars, beetles and grasshoppers, 



