INSECT INTRUDERS. 



particularly deleterious to some of the 

 garden monsoon insect pests, for in 

 8 years I never saw such fine flowers 

 in the gardens of Dehra during the 

 monsoon or so few of the yellow and 

 black-banded oil beetles, the large black 

 weevil, the small one, and the saw- 

 fly larvae, though the latter appeared 

 to have suffered least. This is worth 

 noticing because a long drought is 

 generally favourable to the increase of 

 most insect life. It may be that drought 

 is unfavourable to those forms which 

 appear in our gardens more particularly 

 during the rainy months and live and 

 feed on the external parts of plants. It 

 would appear to be a reasonable surmise 

 perhaps. 



Locust and Grasshopper pests are 

 ubiquitous in India, and one and all of 

 us who have any love for our Garden will 

 have seen, and suffered from, their 

 depredations. There is one little pest, 

 green in colour but smaller than the green 

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