REPORT 



ON THE 



INJURIOUS INSECTS AND OTHER ANIMALS 



OBSERVED IN THE MIDLAND COUNTIES 



DURING 1907. 



u Our agricultural interests demand protection from the numerous 

 enemies which threaten them, and the indifference with which farmers' 

 requests have been listened to in the past is incompatible with that intelligence 

 which should elevate his calling, and which is absolutely necessary to enable 

 him to carry it on profitably" 



u At present he is beset with obstacles on every hand, and none but the 

 well-informed are successful ; for success in Agriculture and Horticulture, 

 to-day, implies knowledge scientific knowledge" CHARLES V. RILEY. 



[5th Ann. Missouri Rpt. on Noxious, Beneficial Insects, 1873, p. 23.] 



" // is the study of the principles underlying insect life and control 

 wliicli furnishes a field for research, but little tilled, and with much virgin 

 soil. . . . There are abundant opportunities for research of the highest 

 order in entomologv, strictly economic, and related to agriculture" 



E. DWIGHT SANDERSON. 



[Proc. iQth Ann. Meeting Assoc. Econ. Entom., 1907, p. 77.] 



INTRODUCTION. 



DURING the year January 3ist, 1907, to January 3ist, 1908, one 

 thousand eight hundred and seventy-five inquiries have been dealt 

 with. Of these, sixteen hundred and twenty-three were connected 

 with agricultural and garden pests, twenty-six referred to household 

 or commercial pests, and two hundred and twenty-six specimens were 

 sent in for identification. 



