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Biology in America 



to them tliat in tlio native liome of the scale might perchance 

 be found some natural enemy, wliieh if introduced into Cal- 

 ifornia migiit drive out, or at least hold in cheek the terrible 

 scale. And so one of them journeyed to Australia and there 

 he found the ladybird beetle, Vedalia, which i)reyed upon the 

 scale. Ami this he brought back with him to California, 



The Pitiful Ladybird 

 a, Rootle ; b, larva ; e, pupa ; d, blossom end of pear, showing scales 

 with larvco of ladybird feeding on them, and i)upic of ladybird attacdied 

 Avithin the calyx. From Quaintance, ' ' The San Jose Scale and its Con- 

 trol, " Farmers' Bulletin, No. 650. 



CoHrtcsij uf the U. .S". Biircait uf Entomoloffy. 



wher(^ it throve; and making war upon the scale it has ever 

 since heUl it in check, delivering the orange and the lemon 

 from their threatened destruction. 



Similar attempts have been made for several years in the 

 war on the l)rown-tail and gypsy moths, which are so destruc- 

 tive to fruit and shade trees in New England, and while the 

 results have been less spectacular than in the ease of the 



