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Title: Insects and insecticides : A practical manual concerning noxious insects and the methods of preventing their injuries
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Weed, Clarence Moores, 1864-1947 Metcalf Collection (North Carolina State University). NCRS
Subjects: Insect pests Insecticides
Publisher: New York : Orange Judd Company
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: NCSU Libraries

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^ of water is added tothoroughly wet the mixture. About a teaspoonful ofthis mixture is thrown upon the ground at the base ofeach tree or vine (in gardens or orchards) and left to doits work. The poison works slowly, seldom killing itsTictim within eight or ten hours after it has been eaten. INSECT Pests of domestic animals AND THE HOUSEHOLD
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PLATB XVI.—THE SCBBW WOKSL INSECTS AFFECTING DOMESTICANIMALS The Screw Worm Comi^somyia macellaria The screw worm, so far as its injuries are concernecl,is a Southern insect. Until recently little or no damagefrom it had been reported outside of Texas, but lately ithas been injurious in Louisiana, Mississij^pi, and otherSouthern States. The fly, however, occurs throughoutAmerica **froni Canada to Patagonia, probably breedingin northern latitudes in decaying animal and vegetablematter. Although in the South cattle are especiallyliable to the attacks of this insect, it is by no means con-fined to them, for horses, mules, hogs, sheep, dogs, andin some recorded cases even men, suffer on account of it. ^In all animals alike, according to Dr. M. Francis,who has studied this insect carefully, ^the eggs, afterbeing laid by the fly, hatch into larvae, or so-called* worms. The exact length of time this r-equires seemsto vary with circumstances. My present opinion is thatif the eggs are laid i

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