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Title: A handbook of the destructive insects of Victoria : with notes on the methods to be adopted to check and extirpate them
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: French, Charles, 1843- Victoria. Dept. of Agriculture
Subjects: Beneficial insects -- Australia Victoria Insect pests -- Australia Victoria Insects -- Australia Victoria
Publisher: Melbourne : Robt. S. Brain
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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ased either in bulk or insmall quantities from McLean Bros. & Rigg (cost, pure,about 6s. per gallon), which will make from 20 to 30 gallonsof the liquid ready for use. There are, doubtless, manyother remedies, but only those which have been tested hereare at present mentioned. 76 DESTRUCTIVE INSECTS OE VICTOEIA : PLATE VII. Apple-bark Scale (Mytilaspis pomorum).Eig. 1, Stem of apple showing scale insects on same. Natural size. (From nature.) 2, Puparium of adult female, overturned, showing enclosed female. Highly magnified. (After Miss Ormerod.) o. Puparium of adult female, also showing eggs. Highly magnified.(After Miss Ormerod.) 4. Puparium of adult female (upper side). Highly magnified.(After Miss Ormerod.) > \5: Puparium of male. Highly magnified. (After Riley.) ■;6. Adult female. Highly magnified. (After Maskell.) 7. Female puparia. Much magnified. (After Maskell.) 8. Adult male (winged). Highly magnified. (After Cooke.) 9. Apple. Showing scale on surface. (From nature.)
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Plate Vll. Sfiny/s t^M^Pou^aJiltm.*fntf THE APPLE-BAEK SCALE. 77 CHAPTER XII. THE APPLE-BAEK SCALE. (Mt/tilaspis pomorum.) Order : Semiptera, Section Homopiera.—Family : Coccidce. Tins most formidable enemy of the apple-grower is animportation from either Europe or America, and has longbeen known in those parts as one of the worst pestsaiFecting the apple. The large family of the Coccidce are, unfortunately, toowell known, the life-history of most of them being verysingular ; and if only for the purpose of stud3dng theirhabits with the view of endeavouring to find out someweak spot in their economy so as to be able to takeadvantage of it by preventative or remedial measures, thetime so devoted would, by the knowledge gained, beamply repaid. Mr. Maskell, whose valuable work on the Scale Insectsof New Zealand is so well known, tells us that themale of this species is unknown in New Zealand andEurope, and doubtful in America, so that although theMussel-scale of the apple is a well-mark

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