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In.'^ect Pests. 



in our .n'arJeiis to do any a]i]ireeialile damage, Lut the)' devour in 

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

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

 present in numbers, especially to peach and nectariire. 



ISkfeeknces. 



(1) Theobald, F. V. .Tonrnal S. E. Agricultural College, Xo. 9, p. 43 (1900l. 



(2) SJiair. E. Synopsis of British Orihoptera. Entomologists' Monthly ^Maga- 



zine, vpl. XXVI., p. 58 (1890l. 



(3) ]Vaftiiiivi/I, C. B. ' Prodromus dei- Europilisehen Orthopteren,' p. 286 



(1882).' 



WOODLICE. 



(Oiiiscliltr.) 



AVlien peaches, apricots anil nectarines are just ripening, lioth 

 out of doors and indodrs, ^^•oodlice freijuently attack tliem. The 

 commonest tVirms seem to he Oniscns asrillus L,, and Ai'iitdcUl/iiJluM 

 r I ill I arc, Lat. 



AVo(.idlice are host tra])ped l)y placing scoo])ed-ont oranges or ]iota- 

 toes near the trees, or by filling pots with damp muss or fresh horse 

 numui'e. Fumigatiim ^\llll hydrocyanic acid gas luis also been found 

 tn kill them under ghiss. Tliey hive niDisture and decaying wnod, 

 and ari' usually AA'oi'st in old gla^s-laiuses. 



riliFl-'.El.-.NCE. 



Wchh, il/. F. ' The I'.ritish AVoodlico,' p]>. 27 and 41 (1906). 



