CHAPTER VI 



ANIMAIi PESTS OF THE GABDEN 



The animal pests of plants, unlike the fungi, which 

 for the most part restrict themselves to one or a few 

 hosts, are frequently somewhat general in their 

 attacks. This statement must not be taken to 

 apply too widely or it may be misleading. For 

 example, certain scale insects and aphides, and even 

 caterpillars and their kin, have a very limited range 

 of food-plants, but it is true to the extent that 

 some groups of pests are better dealt with all together 

 than by repeating their names, etc., time after 

 time under their host plants. Again, several 

 divisions of the animal kingdom include pests of 

 cultivated plants, whereas, besides fungi, few pests 

 occur in other branches of the vegetable kingdom. 

 It is not surprising to find this is so, since aU fl.TiiTna.1a 

 depend directly or indirectly upon plants for food. 



Of the larger w-nimalg — the «.T>iTn«.la that in 

 colloquial language cu-e " animals " — with warm 

 blood and a covering of hair, the weasel, stoat, 



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