SOME COMMON GARDEN PESTS 



It has sucking mouth-parts and feeds upon the 

 juices of the leaves, causing them to wilt and die. 

 Destroy the adults and eggs and use kerosene 

 emulsion, diluted, for nymphs and young bugs. 



" Lady-bug, lady-bug, fly away home, your 

 house is on fire ; your children will burn ; " so say 

 the children, and if she is a well-behaved bug, 

 she will spread her hard beetle wings and fly 

 away. Adalia bipunctata, the Twice-Stabbed 

 Lady-Bug, is a cunning, busy little body, and 

 may be found crawling over trees and plants. 

 Close observation will disclose that she is in 

 search of Aphids, or Plant-Lice, which are so 

 destructive, and of scale-insects, which do so 

 much damage to trees. She is a very beneficial 

 insect and should be carefully protected. Asso- 

 ciated with the Lady-Bugs and Plant-Lice are 

 Black Ants. They come on an entirely different 

 errand. Aphids belong to the order of insects 

 which have sucking mouth-parts and which feed 

 upon the juices of plants. Ants have discovered 

 that by stroking Aphids with their antennaB the 

 Aphids give out drops of honey-dew, which the 

 ants devour greedily. They have become so 

 fond of it that they guard the Aphids very care- 

 fully and sometimes preserve them over winter. 

 For this reason the Aphids have been called 

 " ant-cows." 



The Click-Beetle's acrobatic feats are known 

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