| Show entomology we invite the ilia attention of farmers es especially P of young farmers andoe farmers children the girls as well as the bos boys while yet at an age lor jor keen heen observation to the tile articles appe appear arnZ ng ili in our journal Yo oil on those in insects deets sects at once so ni agin ficano and vet et so fearful that the they y sometimes de bolata solata whole countries constituting the subject of lt let no one think the ilia science in insignificant because bl causa it treats of life 11 in a small way v iv dhosi insects which winell can and avci often do b biffle all tile tha efferts oman are not ilot too insignificant to deserve debene our attention ili in confirmation of our views of tile the importance of this subject suy ct we quote from froni T glover esq the entomologist connected v with ith the agricultural bureau of tile the united states patent office let ns invite unite all our readers iid ild and lid above oll oil the boys and the tiie couig 5 oui g mn rn u to what lie says sas about the tiie birds buds is us destroyers destroy ers era of insects the tha birds arg ars are our best friends dont kill the birds plo plough Pio uzi uzl loom and anvil auvil oct 56 mr glover says sass sas IA close clos study of the habits and transformations of any one of the pernicious insects bail ball worm wilk at midge caterpillar ac by the practical and ana intelligent farmer would prove pot not only a i source of greit grett grett gre tt it pleasure as leading him to a keener sense 0 01 the ilia and wonderful works of nature ai a i exemplified in the singular transformations insects undergo before they assume tha tile perfect or fly state but also a source of great profit ns as by experimenting upon ithem them in in all the stages of their ahr existence exl exi tenc ha lie might perchance discover some practical method by lly which their extermination could ba be effected indeed it is is that a farmer firmer should ba bs able abla to recognize the llie insects that destroy ins his crops in all their various s iid ild and lid wonderful wonder ful rul formations transformations tras before any iny eft remedy can cah bo be applied as in one stage of their life they may be suffered to live and enjoy themselves nay even sometimes be protected pi ted awhile in another stage we persecute te and detroy de troy etroy them by ever eier every means in our power for example tile the beautiful butterfly oe of tile t ne capelia any aly humane and kindhearted farmer farmen unversed ili in entomology who sh should uld see his children chasing arid and killing the beautiful pil ril black blick and yellow elow spotted butterfly that was flitt jug aug joyously over his vegetable garden 9 ardeil arderi ili in the spring or early summer apparently lea dinga life of inere harmless pleasure would no doubt reprove r epro e them for wail wall wantonly tonly toniy destroying such a pretty harmless insect and ct et if the truth was known this pretty aud and pud in inich to o be pi pitied tied in it sect is the parent of all those hosa nauseous smelling green ani and black spotted worms that later ili in the seasons destroy his ins parley celery parsnips par snips arid and carrots yet by merely crushing the parent fly at one blow early in the season before it has depo de posted saed sued its eggs lie he would be soared snared the vexation of either seeing his ins plants devoured and arid seed seea destroyed I 1 or having the ilie disagreeable tak task of picking grf one by one some hundreds of caterpillars later in in the season beason this fact will be more apparent when I 1 blate elate how ili in credibly fast some insects multiplies specially aily ally in the ilia warmer climate the south where D there a is is little frost to destroy vegetable life and there are several generations 1 orations erat ions lons in one ee geason season soil dr john gamble of S fla assisted by mys illys af lf dissected a female ball bail worm moth or miller an insect which in tile the caterpillar state is most destructive to cotton and we discovered a mass of of eggs which when counted amounted at tila the atlon aaion tog lo 10 give five ive lve hundred duly hatched for if tiie llis first generation say one half mules males the rest E female the second generation if undisturbed would ud amount to third be air almost ost incalculable now these thesa mother flies are not very numerous searl early y I 1 ili in the season owing to the birds devou devouring r them the tiie rigor of winter and var various iotis lotis other accidental dental causes and if practical means were found to destroy them as early ili in the spring as possible the tilo ravages of the second and generations might be prevented in ili one female cae oae cee ticul case caboor or so destructive to tile tiie ahad trees tries I 1 edua edun counted ted led nearly eight hundred eggs although the specimen was but small now were ail all cheso thesa cases eases taken from every infected tree treo io in the winter when they can dan most easily e be sert seri ev owing to tile the fall fail of the tile leaf and then tilen ly b ined the trees would bo be com corn free frem the ilie next season geason and by following this plan fur for one or two years more tile tiie wark g grad milly lesa less les ies and arad liss less tile the insect might inight finally be exterminated inasmuch as the female naver ver baves her casp casi lift lutins lier her nest of eggs inside and yet til alise tilse noxious us are arf skiff stiff suffered ered year by year to hi increase creaso when so little trouble would destroy them other insects again have other oilier fully known would likewise I 1 1 lead to heir their destruction I 1 r |
