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BETTER FRUIT 



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PESTS UNKNOWN TO COLORADO FRUIT GROWERS 



BY C. P. GILLETTE COLORADO AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, FT. COLLINS, COLORADO 



WHERE do our insect pests all 

 come from? Do they spring 

 sporitaneously from the soil and 

 moisture under the influence of the heat 

 and light of the sun, as the ancient 

 Greeks supposed many living things 

 came into existence? Are new species 

 continually being developed, or how is 

 it that there is an insect to destroy every 

 kind of a plant that man grows? Such 

 questions as these often perplex the 

 gardener, the farmer, the orchardist, and 

 even the nurseryman. There are those 

 present who can well remember when 

 the Colorado potato beetle was unknown 

 as a pest, when the San Jose scale was 

 without a name or a record, when the 

 dreaded Gipsey and brown-tail moths 

 had not yet done any injury to the forest 

 or other trees in the New England states, 

 and when even pear and apple blight 

 had not yet attracted the attention of the 

 orchardist ni the Middle and Western 

 states. In fact many of our insect pests 

 and plant diseases seem to be of com- 

 paratively recent origin. 



Probably it is unnecessary to state that 

 no insect, however minute, ever springs 

 spontaneously into life, no matter what 

 its environment or how favorable the 

 conditions for its nourishment and propa- 

 gation. Every insect, like all higher 

 forms of life, is born or hatched from an 

 egg of a parent like itself. The natural 

 conditions in Australia for the develop- 



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may be due to one or more of several 

 ment of rabbits, and the conditions in 

 the United States for the development 

 of the English sparrow must long have 

 been of the best, but neither of these 

 creatures occurred in the countries men- 

 tioned until men first introduced them. 

 Likewise the San Jose scale did not 

 appear in California, nor the codling 

 moth in Colorado until someone took 

 these insects into these localities. 



Then, when an insect before unnoticed, 

 suddenly appears in injurious numbers 

 upon some cultivated crop it does not 

 mean that a n,ew form of life has sprung 

 into existence. It does mean one of 

 two things, however. Either the condi- 

 tions for the development of this insect 

 have suddenly become more favorable, 

 or the insect is one that has been intro- 

 duced into the locality from some dis- 

 tant point. If the insect is one belong- 



ing in the region its increase in numbers 

 causes, such as reduction in the number 

 of its enemies, more favorable climatic 

 conditions for its healthy development or 

 a more abundant food supply. 



It is from such causes as these that 

 most of our insect pests arise. When 

 white men began to plant potatoes on 

 these Western plains they furnished a 

 suitable and abundant food supply for the 



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