NOTES OF OBSERVATIONS 
OF 
INJURIOUS INSECTS 
During 1882. 
APPLE. 
American Blight; Woolly Aphis. Schizoneura lanigera , Hausm. 
SCHIZONEURA LANIGERA. 
Winged Woolly Aphis, magnified ; larvae, much magnified. 
Apple twig, with the same larvae, natural size, at the lower part of the infested spot. 
Mr. Malcolm Dunn, writing on the lOtli of July from The 
Gardens, Dalkeith Palace, N.B., mentions, “ We are generally not 
much troubled with American blight in this district, but this year it 
has broken out rather severely on a few of our Apple trees, and I have 
destroyed it by washing them with strong soap-suds, in which I put 
about half a wine-glass of paraffin to a gallon of the suds, and apply 
with a syringe or the garden-engine.” 
“ I find soft-soap an excellent insecticide, wherever it can be applied 
with safety to the plant: made into a thick lather, and applied with a 
stiff brush to the stems of Apple trees infested with ‘ American 
Blight,’ it is a certain remedy. In the winter, when the trees are at 
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