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THE CULTURE OF THE CHRYSANTHEMUM. 



shapes and sizes, some being long and narrow, some short 

 and thick. They fly very lightly to a shoot infested with 

 aphides, lay an egg in their midst, and hover away to 

 another shoot, and so on. These eggs soon come to life 

 and begin feeding on the aphides. The grubs cling to the 

 leaf or stem and feel about with their heads till they catch 

 an aphis when they suck it dry, cast away the skin, and 

 go " fishing " again. Thousands of these have been killed 

 for caterpillars in ignorance, for they generally lie close 

 to the stem, or on a leaf, as a caterpillar would. 



Tlie Golden !:>-. 



The eggs of this pretty insect, called also the " Lice- 

 lion," are generally deposited amongst aphides, and at- 

 tached to the ends of slender threads of a gummy sub- 

 stance (Fig. 2). When they are hatched they begin to feed 

 voraciously upon aphides, and in the younger state they 



The Golden Eye. 



5 and 6 cocoon magnified ; I female ; 2 eggs ; 4 larva magnified ; 

 3 larva covered with the skins of their victims. 



cover themselves with the skins of their victims. In this 

 way it is difficult to detect them, and they lie concealed 

 from small birds and other enemies ; but when they are 

 grown somewhat they are more greedy than the larva of 

 the lady-bird hence their name, " Lice-lion." 



