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PABASITES DURING THEIR WHOLE LIFE. 



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these beings as riders on both the vegetable and animal 

 kingdoms to restrain them with a bridle. What the 



gardener does to plants, the aphis has often done before 



in order to arrest a too vigorous and rapid growth. 



The cochineal insect {Coccus cacti) Figs. 80 and 81, 

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