April, 1910 
THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. 
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View looking down Firebreak, Plantation H., Wirrabarra Forest, 
showing Remarkable Pines (Pinus AEE 19 years old. 
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used to the shaking of the wird, but not 
to the sudden jar, and they fall much 
quicker in consequence. The dish can be 
emptied as the bugs accu nulate, and re- 
charged. If this work is undertaken 
early in the morning when the pests are 
resting, very few will attempt to fly. 
A sheet spread under the tree and 
wetted with kerosene emulsion, of which 
2 canful can be kept alongside to sprinkle 
the fallen bugs from time to time, will 
act instead of the “hopperdozer dish,” 
and may be more handy on rough ground. 
‘The bugs which have been so trouble- 
#ome this season are :— 
(1) The Rutherglen Bug (Nysius 
vinitor).—A tiny silver-grey bug, that 
swarms on tomato, potato, lucerne 
wheat, aud other crops, and in 
orchards sucks the sap of ripening 
fruit and grapes. 
(2) The Brown Ground-Bug (Dictyotus 
plebijus).— —These live ‘among dry 
rubbish on the ground, and from some 
unknown cause havé become so abun- 
dant this season that they swarm in 
wheat- fields, and are damaging fruit. 
It isa dull brown colored bug, uuder 
o of an inch in length, broad in front 
behind the head, and angular to the 
the tip of the body. It is a pest in 
the southern and western districts. 
(3) The Cherry Bug (Peltophora pedi- 
cellata).—This.is one of the larger, 
rich imetallic-green colored, oval- 
shield bugs, up to } ef an inch in 
length. 1t is common in the Gosford 
district, and has a wide range. It 
confines its attention to ripening 
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(4) The Bronzy Orange Bug (Stilida 
indecora), which is often very trouble- 
some on the Northern Rivers. They 
cluster round the base of the stalks of 
_the frnit, and by sucking up the sap 
cause the fruit to drop before it ia 
-vipe. This is one of our largest 
shield buys, of a general metallic 
bronze-brown tint. Fumigation with 
hydrocyanic acid gas has been used 
successfully against this pest, and’ 
might be used under favourable con- 
ditions with some of the others. 
previously noted. 
—‘Agricultural Journal’ of N.S.W. 
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