INDEX. 
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Mangold and Beet Fly, 48—50 ; various 
kinds of, 49 
Manure, maggots in, iv 
Moth-blights, 54 
Nematus Bibesii, 43 
Nitrate of soda, 12, 73 
Onion Fly, 50, 52 ; earthing up bulbs to 
prevent attack of, 52 
Otiorhynchus picipes, 68 ; tenebricosus, 
69 
Paraffin, sprinkled in sawdust, 39; 
syringed into timber grub borings, 65 
Paris green, use and method of applica¬ 
tion of, 60, 61 
Parsnip and Celery Fly, 20, 21 
Pea and Clover Weevils, 57—59 ; history 
of continued, 57, 58; shelter in top 
joint of stubble, 59 
Pear Midge, 52—54 ; habits of, 53 ; pre¬ 
ventives for, removing fallen fruit, 
53; skimming infested surface soil, 54 
Pear trees, lime to destroy insects on, 56 
Peronea ?comariana, 70; ? comparana, 
70 
Phorodon Humuli (see Appendix) 
Phyllotreta nemorum, 76 
Pine Aphis (cottony), 59—61 ; Paris 
green destructive to, 59 
Pine Beetle, 61, 62; trap for, 61 
Plusia gamma, 77, 78 
Plutella cruciferarum, 72 
Poplar, 63—65 
Powdered wing, 54 
Psila Rosie, 18 
Raspberry Beetle, 65, 66 ; habits of, 66 
Raspberry bud caterpillar, 66—68 ; 
history of, 67 
Red Maggot, 34 
Royal Agricultural Society circular of, iv 
“Rust,” 19 
Sawfly, Apple, 1—3 
,, Cherry and pear, 23—25 
,, Currant, 43 
,, Gooseberry, 43 
Schizoneura fuliginosa, 59 
Sciara fucata, 32 
Selandria cerasi, 23 
Sheep useful by eating fallen infested 
fruit, 54 
Silver Y Moth, 77, 78; cocoons of 
numerous on corn, &c., 77 
Siphonophora granaria, 25 
Sirex gigas, 62 
Sitona lineata, 57 
,, puncticollis, 57 
Slugs, 79, 80 ; power of moulting off 
obnoxious matter, 79 ; slime exhausted 
by repeated dressings, 80 
Slugworms, 23—25 
Snake Millipedes, 7, 8 
,, ,, flattened, 8 
Snowy Fly, 54—56 ; habits of, 55 ; on 
pear, 55 
Soil, infested, removing surface of, 2, 6, 
24, 43, 44, 54 
Sparrows, 40—42 ; injurious to corn, 
41, 42 
Sticky band, 6 
Strawberry-leaf Button Moth, 70—72 
history of, 71 
Superphosphate, 12, 77 
Tenthredo testudinea, 1 
,, cerasi, 23 
Tephritis Onopordinis, 20 
Timber Wasp, 62, 63 
Tipula oleracea, 27 ; ? quadrifaria, 27 
Trees to protect from egg laying round 
base of trunk, 65 ; to protect from 
moths and caterpillars crawling up, 5 
Turnip Fly, 76, 77 
Washes Paraffin, 4 
,, Hop (see Appendix 12—14) 
,, Tobacco and soft soap, 4, 9 
Web nests, to destroy, 4 
Wheat Midge, 34—37; amongst hedge- 
side grass, 35 
Winter Moth, 4—6 
Wireworm, 37—40 ; effect of rape cake 
on, 39; preventives for, breaking up 
furrow, 38 ; hand-picking, 38 ; rolling, 
38 ; paraffin and sawdust, 39; present 
in cattle droppings, 38 
Young—Wheat Maggot, 32—34 ; after 
clover lea, 33 ; killed by rolling, 33 
APPENDIX. 
Hop Aphis, first appearance, 2—5, 
effects of healthy growth on, 11; Lady 
birds useful in destroying, 14, 15; 
found on isolated Hop, 10 ; found on 
Nettle, 9 ; migration (supposed) of, 
6, 7 ; not found in dead bines, 8, 9 ; 
or in winter earth, 7 ; washes, 12, 14 
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