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unsatisfactory ; if, therefore, they can be attacked before the leaves 

 burst, and while the eggs are clustered on the trunk and in the 

 crevices of the bark, there will be a much better chance of destroy- 

 ing them. I find the red spider on apples, pears, plums, apricots, 

 hops, beans of all sorts, roses, and some other garden flowers. 

 The eggs are sometimes quite reddish, while at other times I have 

 noticed that they were colourless. The so-called spiders are very 

 small, not much bigger than a large f ullstop. 



In some countries this so-called red spider does a great amount 

 of damage to lemon and almond trees, but in this country it has 

 seldom, if ever, caused any serious damage to fruit trees, it being 

 destroyed by the little ladybird (Symnus vagans) . 



Treatment. The same as for red mite. 



ETJTHERGLEN BUG (Nysius vinitor, Bergroth). 

 Description and Life History. 



Mr. Froggatt, in writing on this pest in the New South Wales 

 Agricultural Gazette, says : " Small plant bugs, which every few 

 seasons appear in great numbers among the weeds and rubbish in 

 the fields, and when fully developed attack 

 the fruit, pricking it with their sharp tubular 

 mouths, and causing the fruit to become 

 spotted, and finally fall to the ground. These 

 bugs are small gray creatures, about 1J lines 

 in length when full grown, of a general 

 grayish brown colour; the eyes large and 

 rounded ; the forehead rather pointed ; and 

 the antennae long, composed of four joints, 

 the basal one short and thick ; the thorax is 

 narrow behind the eyes, but broader at the 

 base of the wings; the legs long and slender, 

 with the tarsi rather black ; the wings are 

 semi-transparent, with a few dark lines show- 



rinitor). m ^ w j ien c } osec l. 



"They are very active little creatures, running to shelter when 

 disturbed on the ground, and if upon the tree, flying off as soon as 

 it is touched, so that they are not easily destroyed. Very little is 

 known about their earlier stages, but the eggs are said to be 

 deposited about the trunks of the trees, close to the ground. This 

 bug is said, besides damaging this and other fruit, to do consider- 

 able damage to tomato and potato fields by destroying the foliage, 

 but the entomologist could never find conclusive proof that this 

 was the case. 



" Treatment. In the Liverpool district several orchardists 

 minimise this pest, tc a great extent, by going round early in the 

 morning and shaking each branch over a large shallow dish con- 

 taining a little kerosene and water, into which they fall and are 



