438 



INDEX 



Arsenite of soda, 44 

 Arthropoda, 11 

 Arthropods, 11 

 Ash-gray pinion, 106 

 Asparagus beetle, 245, *246 

 Aspidiotus ancylus, 74 



ficus, 174 



nerii, 174, 254 



perniciosus, 70 



rapax, 174, 254 

 Asters, lice on roots of, 258 

 Atropos, 301 

 Attagenus piceus, 293 



B 



Bacon beetle, 297, *297 

 Bait, acceptable, 28 



alfalfa, 43 



clover, 43 



for sow bugs, 44 



poisoned grain, 44 



tarred corn, 44 

 Baiting, 28 

 Baits, poison, 43 

 Balancers, 22 

 Baltimore oriole, 390 

 Bamboo extension, *57 

 Banded hair-streak, 123 

 Bands of burlap, 49 

 Bark beetles, breeding place of, *7 



fruit beetle, 77 



louse, 127 

 Barley, 212 



Barn swallow, 403, *404 

 Barrel pump, *53 



portable, *224 

 with cart, *54 



spray pump, *52 



Basswood defoliated by canker worm, 

 *88 



showing galls, *267 

 Bean, aphids, 242 



fly, 244 



maggot, 244 

 fly, *243 



weevil, 244, *244 

 Beans, insects affecting, 242 

 Beautiful hickory beetle, 282 

 Bedbug, 293, *294 

 Bee-fly, *342, 343 



moth, 367, *367 



injured comb, *343 

 larva of, *342 



pinned, *29 

 Beet aphis, 201 



Beets, insects attacking, 201 

 Belted kingfisher, 394, *396 

 Bembecina marginata, 138 

 Berries, insect pests of, 133 

 Birch-leaf skeletonizer, 263 

 Bird houses, 408 



lice, 17 

 Birds, classification of, 373 



crops attacked by, 409 



feeding of, 409 



how to attract, 408 



how to study, 407 



observations of, 407 



of doubtful utility, 495 



protection of, 8 



field crops from, 410 



relation of, to agriculture, 372 

 Black ant, *256 



carpet beetle, *294 



flies, 310, 335 



control of, 311, 335 



fly, species of, *311 



peach aphis, 125 

 scale, 173, *174 



tern, 404 

 Blackberry crown-borer, 138, *139 



flea-louse, 145 



insects attacking, 138 



supplementary list of, 145 



leaf miner, 145 



psylla, 145 

 Blackbird, crow, 393 



habits of, 392 



red-winged, 391, *392 

 Blatella germanica, 295 

 Blind-eyed sphinx, 106, 123 

 Blissus leucopterus, 191 

 Blister beetles, 20, 198, *199,*227, 245 



mite, *110 



Blood-sucking oscinis, 325, *325 

 Blow-fly, 335 

 Bluebird, 379 

 Bobolink, 390, *391 

 Bob-white, 401, 402 

 Boll-weevil, 221, *222 



losses from, 1 

 Boll-worm, pink, 225 

 Bolting-cloth beetle, 353 

 Bombyliid, *367 

 Book lice, 301 

 louse, 17 



Bordeaux, dry, 60 

 mixture, 42 

 nozzle, double, *58 

 Bot, squeezing, *321 



