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Perhaps this very complicated life-history can be made 

 clearer by the following tabular summary. 



Summary op Generations op Chbrmes 



On Spkucb. On Lakch. 



1st Generation Hibernating wingless 

 females whicb form 

 galls in the spring and 

 lay eggs. 



Winged, females, leaving 

 galls in August. 



2nd Generation - 



Some stay on spruce and Some migrate to larch 

 lay eggs in autumn. and lay eggs there in 



autumn. 



3rd Generation Hibernating females, like Hibernating females 

 Generation I. which lay eggs on 



larch in spring. 



4th Generation Winged forms returning 

 to spruce and laying 

 eggs there in August. 



Wingless forms. 



5 th Generation 



Winged 



female and male. 



Eggs fertilised. 



6 th Generation Hibernating females, 

 wingless, like Genera- 

 tion I. 



This insect Ghermes is very undesirable in spruce and larch 

 plantations, not only because of the harm done by it to the 



