80 THE FLOWER GARDEN. 
several kinds, the Black Slug (Arion ater) ; Garden Slug (A. 
hortensis) ; Yellow Slug (Limax flavus) ; Field or Milky Slug 
(Limax agrestris), and the Large Slug (Limax maximus). 
Fig. 33> GARDEN FRIENDS— HAWK FLIES. 
Explanation. — Fig. 4 (Scseva Pyrastri) and Fig. 7 (Scseva Ribesii) arc small flics of 
a wasp-like nature, which lay their eggs among colonies of aphides, and these hatch into 
larvae, like Figs. 3 and 5, which immediately commence to devour the aphides. Figs. 3 
and 6 are pupae. 
Slugs and snails are more active in moist weather, and the best 
way to cope with them is to dust soot or lime freely about the 
borders on successive evenings. One application is useless, as 
Fig. 34. GARDEN FRIENDS— LADYBIRD BEETLES AND LARVAE. 
Explanation. — Figs. 5 and 6 show the pupae on leaves ; Fig. 3 is the larva or 
“Crocodile," which feeds voraciovsly on aphides; Figs. 7 and 8, the Two-spotted 
Ladybird (Coccinella bipunctata) ; Fig. 9 is the Seven-spotted Ladybird (C. septem 
punctata). These creatures should never be destroyed. 
the creatures will shed their slimy coatings for the first day or 
so and get rid of the lime or soot, but if the application be 
repeated a few times the lime or soot will eventually kill the 
