450 



INDEX 



Robin, Western variety of, 375 

 Rocky Mountain locust, 18 



spotted fever tick, 340, 342, 



*343 

 Rodents, loss to agriculture, 1 



stop in time, 9 

 Romalea microptera, 184 

 Rose chafer, 123, 156, *158, 258 



leaf hopper, 106 

 Rose-breasted grosbeak, 387 

 Roses, lice on, 255 

 Rotation, 6 



Round-headed apple-tree borer, *69 

 Rust mite, 182 

 Rustic borer, 280 

 Rusty-brown plum louse, 121 



tortrix, 138 

 Rye insects, 212 



Saddle-backed caterpillar, 152 



Saissetia oleoe, 173 



Samia cecropia, 91 



San Jose scale, 70, *71, 123, 132, 152 



Sanninoidea exitiosa, 113 



opalescens, 113, 123 

 Saperda Candida, 69 



tridentata, 268 



Sapsucker, yellow-bellied, 397, *398 

 Sarcophaga, 323 

 Sarcoptes scabiei, 336 

 Saw-flies, 250 

 Saw-fly, willow, 273 

 Saw-toothed grain beetle, 350, *352 

 Scab-mite, 330, *331 

 Scale, black, 173 



broad, 174 



circular, 174 



cottonwood, 272 



cottony cushion, 174 



greedy, 174 



insects, 21 



remedies for, 175 



long, 174 



oyster-shell, 72 



plum, 117 



purple, 174 



Putnam, 74 



ribbed, 174 



San Jose", 70, *71, 123, 132, 152 



scurfy, 73, *73, 123 



soft orange, 174 



terrapin, 124 



white, 174 



yellow, 173 

 Scale- winged, 22 



Scalecide, 125 

 Scarecrows, 411 

 Scarlet tanager, 389 

 Schistocerus hamatiLS, 155 

 Schizoneura americana, 285 



lanigera, 77 

 Schizura concinna, 90 



ipsomoece, 144 

 Schmidt insect box, *36 

 Scions, fumigating, 62 

 Scolytus rugulosus, 114 

 Scorpion flies, 15 

 Scorpions, 11 

 Screw- worm, 321 



fly, *322 



Scurfy scale, 73, *73, 123 

 Secondary parasites, 368 

 Seed-beds, covering of, 50 

 Seed galls, jumping, 280 

 Sesia pictipes, 114 



tipuliformis, 145 



Shade trees, insects affecting, 260 

 Sheep bot-fly, 326 



remedies for, 327 



dipping of, for scab, 331 



gad-fly, *326 



infested with scab, *332 



scab mite of, 330 



tick, 332, *333 



treatment of, 333 

 Shocks of corn afford shelter, *5 

 Sight, sense of, 13 

 SUvanus surinamensis, 350 

 "Silver fish/' *15, 300 

 SimulidoB, 335 

 Simulium venustum, 311 

 Sinuate pear borer, 108 

 Siphonaptera order, 22 

 Siphonophora, 182 

 Sitodrepa panicea, 298 

 Sitotroga cerealella, 208, 348 

 Skippers, 22, 28 

 Skunk, 9 



common, 434 

 Slug caterpillar, 106 



on roses, 259 

 Slugs, 259 



Smeared dagger-moth, 106, 169 

 Smell, sense of, 13 

 Snapping beetles, 206 

 Snowy tree-cricket, 140, *141, 169 

 eggs of, *141 



feeding on gland of male, *1 42 

 female ovipositing, *142 

 Soap solutions, 45 

 Sod land, 6 



