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Insect Pests. 



in our gardens to do an}' appreciable damage, but they devour in 

 all stages the foliage of such fruit as peach, apricot, nectarine and 

 plum, with great rapidity, and may occasion some harm when 

 present in numbers, especially to peach and nectarine. 



Eeferences. 



(1) Theobald, F. V. Journal S. E. Agricultural College, No. 9, p. 43 (1900). 



(2) SJiaw, E. Sj'nopsis of Britisli Orthoptera. Entomologists' Monthly ]\Iaga- 



zine, vol. XXVI. , p. 58 (1890). 



(3) Wattemvyl, C. B. ' Prodromus der Europaischen Orthopteren,' p. 286 



(1882). 



WOODLICE. 



{Omscidw.) 



When peaches, apricots and nectarines are 

 out of doors and indoors, woodlice freqnently 

 commonest forms seem to be Oniscvs asccllvs L., 

 vulgarc, Lat. 



Woodlice are best trapped by placing scooped 

 toes near the trees, or by filling pots with damp 

 manure. Fumigation with hydrocyanic acid gas 

 to kill them under glass. They love moisture 

 and are usually worst in old glass-houses. 



just ripening, both 

 attack them. The 

 and A rm adiUidium 



-out oranges or pota- 

 moss or fresh horse 

 has also been found 

 and decaying wood. 



[F. E. 

 FIG. 216.— A WOODLOUSE. 

 (X 2.) 



Reference. 

 Wchh, M. F. ' The British Woodlice,' pp. 27 and 41 (1906). 



