Trapping 



lead to the capture of many. They should be 

 examined daily. 



Millepedes and soil insects like wireworms are 

 best trapped. Pieces of potato or carrot are buried 

 about an inch below the soil, the place being marked 

 with a stick. The traps are examined daily and the 

 captives killed. Potatoes halved and hoUowed out, 

 placed with the hollow side down on soil near the 

 haunts of woodlice, will capture these troublesome 

 pests. The traps need daily attention, and as with 

 all these pests, hot water or water with paraf&n 

 floaiting upon it wiU prove the best thing to kill the 

 captives with. 



Earwigs often eat the petals of flowers. They 

 shelter during the day, and inverted flower -pots 

 stuffed with hay and elevated on stakes or lengths of 

 old bean stems laid near the infested plants will 

 act as excellent traps for them. 



One or two ground beetles (as well as millepedes 

 and thrushes) eat holes in strawberries as they 

 ripen. They are best destroyed by trapping in 

 basins or smooth tins sunk up to the rim in the 

 surrounding earth and baited with a piece of "lights." 

 These captures will be made mostly at night. 



Many moths are attracted by a light, and this 

 is sometimes made use of to captiu-e pests. The 

 results are not, however, altogether satisfactory. 

 Poison baits too may sometimes be employed where 

 it is certain that domestic animals, including bees, 



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