INSECT INTRUDERS. 



to survive, " contain more ponderable 

 substance than 500 millions of stout men, 

 t.e., almost more than the total popula- 

 tion of China ! ! " 



The little bug's we have seen develop- 

 ing from the egg cluster described above 

 feed upon these pests of our rose bushes 

 and chrysanthemums and thus form 

 a most useful servant and friend to 

 man. 



Those of us who have apricot and 

 peach trees in the garden will have 

 noticed in the spring, when the tender 

 new leaves have clothed the ends of the 

 young green branches with a delicate 

 green tracery, that after a time these 

 leaves commence to bunch and curl up 

 into unsightly cork-screw sticky masses 

 which gradually turn yellow brown to 

 black and die. I n cases of severe attack 

 the whole of the new spring growth may 

 be lost in this way and a very poor crop 

 of fruit or no crop at all will be the 

 result. 



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