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attend to this work yourself, do it. {Gard. and Flor. 

 i. 22.) 



Thrips ochraceous is a minute plague, nibbling off 

 the blooms, and leaving white patches and specks ; 

 and if they infest a plant before it blooms, its growth 

 is checked, and sometimes past recovery. The thrips 

 being a fly is not easily destroyed ; but, as in the 

 case of the aphides on out-of-door plants, they cannot 

 be smoked to death, the next resource is syringing 

 with tobacco-water or soapsuds, or even clear water ; 

 for many will be destroyed every time, and continual 

 disturbance has a good benefit, even if they are not 

 killed. {Gard. and Flor. i. 22.) 



The Thrips ochraceous is of the same genus, and 

 very much resembles that tittilating insect (Thrips 

 physapus) so tormenting to the face in summer. It 

 is narrow and linear, of a bright and deep ochreous 

 colour, the eyes are black, the horns appear to be 

 only six-jointed, and brownish at the tips ; it has 

 three ocelli in the crown ; the body is hairy, the tip 

 pointed and bristly ; the wings are shorter than the 

 body in the male, lying parallel on the back when at 

 rest, narrow, especially the under ones, and fringed ; 

 the hairs longest beneath and at the point ; tips of 

 feet dusky. {Gard. Chron.) 



