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Insect Pests. 



them. Durin,^ the past year the writer visited a plan ation m 

 December in \N-hich the bands were all dry, a few days later the 

 females were appearing in numbers, and thus, for saving a small 

 additional expense, all that had been spent in banding the trees was 

 wasted Moreover, the bands freriuently become so smothered with 

 insects that others can readily pass over their dead bodies. It is not 



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FIG. 4.5. ~.V UllE.V^E-B.VMiKD AIT'LF, TliK.K. 

 [The hinni In-iy ix iJacfilfar too ]i!illu) 



only female Winter ]Moths that are caught, but tlie winged males m 

 large numbers and these aid very materially in covering the bands. 

 Numbers of the Winter Gnats (Trirhoccra ro/clntiiuii^) also get caught 

 and many midges and other Hies, all tending to smother the grease 

 and so make a bridge for later hatched moths to cross. These 

 covered liands .should be cleared and smeared again. 



The numbers of females caught on each liand is frequently ^'ery 



