INDEX 



Adhesives, 295 



Air-slacked lime, 294 



Angoumois grain moth, 242, 

 302 



Animal feeders on insects, 131 



Anopheles and malaria, 204 

 habits, 211 



Ant guests, 128 

 lions, 89 



Ants and plant lice, 125 

 and Scutellista, 127 

 as scavengers, 190 

 domestic economy, 125 

 in houses, 242 



Aphelinus on scales, 119 



Aphis lions, 89 



Apple borers, 65 



Argentine ant, 245 



Arsenate of lead, 274 



Arsenical poisons, 274 



Asiatic lady-bird, 107 



Asilidae, no 



Balance of nature, 249 

 Banding, uses of, 298 

 Bark-beetle injury, 70, 268 

 Barriers to canker worms, 298 

 Bat-tick, 183 

 Bean weevils, 66, 261 

 Beaver parasite, 161 

 Bed-bugs, 229 

 Bee disease, 151 



flies, no 



habits, 26 



products, 195 

 Bees as pollenizers, 25 



Beetles as borers, 267 



as parasites, 96 



as pollenizers, 36 



injury by, 58 

 Bill bugs, 259 

 Bird lice, 160 

 Birds vs. insects, 133 

 Bisulphide of carbon, 304 

 Biting lice, 159 

 Black beetles, 227 



flies, 167 



Blastophaga on figs, 31 

 Blister beetles, 97, 197 

 Blood of insects, 10 

 Blow-fly, 175 

 Blue-bottle fly, 174 

 Body louse, 156 

 Boll-worm, 263 

 Bombyliidae, no 

 Book lice, 221 

 Bordeaux mixture, 275 

 Borers as food, 197 



protections from, 297 

 Boring caterpillars, 266 

 Bot-flies, 176 

 Bran and arsenic, 297 

 Breathing of insects, 10 

 Breeding of insects, 1 5 

 Bristle-tails, 219 

 Bruchidae, 66, 261 

 Buffalo gnats, 166 



moth, 233, 234 

 Bumble-bees and clover, 25 

 Buprestidae, 60 

 Burying beetles, 188 

 Butterflies as pollenizers, 34 



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