A handbook of the destructive insects of Victoria : with notes on the methods to be adopted to check and extirpate them

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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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artment of New South Wales, a figureis given of some American hymenopterous parasites of theCodlin Moth. I must confess, however, that I am notinclined to pin too much faith to waiting for the extermi-nation of insect pests generally through the agency ofparasites, relying more upon united energy and the use ofthe various solutions recommended for their destruction. That an orchard may be kept comparatively clean ofCodlin JNIoth there can be no doubt, this much having Ijeenproved l3y growers in America and elsewhere, and with usthere must be no such word as fail. 5ft j^ DESTRUCTIVE INSECTS OF VICTORIA ^^ PLATE III. Curve-WINGED Apple Moth (Erechthias mystacinella). Fig. 1. Branch of apple, showing excrescences caused by Woolly Aphis, and projecting pupae-cases of moth, also moths atrest, and caterpillars in wood. Natural size. (From nature.) 2. Moths on wing. Natural size. (From nature.) 3. Moth on wing. Mj;,ghified. (From nature.) 4. Larvae (or caterpillar). Magnified. (From nature.)
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C.-Briltlebank.dd. C. French. Direxil. pjQte m Troedel & C? Lilh THE CURVE-WmGED APPLE MOTH. 57 CHAPTER VIII. THE CURVE-WINGED APPLE MOTH. (Erechthias mystacinella.)Order: Lepidoptera.—Family: Tineinice. A small insect to which (owing to the singular curva-ture of the wings) I have given the common name of the Curve-winged Apple Moth. This little pest is but imperfectly known, and I amindebted to Dr. T. P. Lucas, of Brisbane, the well-knownlepidopterist, for its name; and as I had not the necessaryspecimens for comparison, he has Idndly compared andidentified the specimens for me. Mr. Anderson, of theField Naturalists Club, who has brought this, one of theleast known of apple pests, under my notice, says thatunnamed specimens of this moth have been in theUniversity Museum for some time, and it plays no unim-portant part in the destruction of apple trees throughoutthe colony. The female deposits her eggs among the loose bark, orin any crevice in the stem or thick branches of the

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