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Show Many Garden Insects That Have Real Valuft All garden insects are not Injurious. Injuri-ous. In fact many of them are beneficial, bene-ficial, continually doing good by destroying de-stroying those species which are-harniful. are-harniful. Foremost among the Insects In-sects that help the gardener are the-different the-different kinds of ladybird beetles. Both in their larval and adult stages, they feed almost exclusively exclusive-ly upon plant lice and scale Insects. Another kind of beetle, the fiery ground beetle, Is a particularly useful use-ful Insect. This beetle and its voracious vora-cious grub, which Is called the cutworm cut-worm lion, destroy enormous numbers num-bers of cut worms. The beetle Is-brownish-bluck, with the wing-cases spotted with coppery red hence its name. The large harpulas beetle, which is very common, destroys cut worms. The different kinds of lace-wing, lace-wing, and other two and four-winged' parasitic flies are also friends of the-gardener. |