Category: Science - Biology
This work deals with the insects and other animals having a detrimental or beneficial influence upon horticulture in New Zealand. Its purpose is to supply such general information as will enable the common animal inhabitants of the garden to be identified and controlled, to ac...
The term “sucking insect” is applied to all insects that have the mouth parts modified as delicate stylets, by means of which the plant tissues are punctured and the nutrient sa...
8. CHAPTER VII.Leaf-feeding insects have their mouth-parts developed for the biting off and mastication of their food; such insects are, in general, earwigs, crickets and grasshoppers, the cat...
11. CHAPTER X.In dealing with the control of plant pests, the objective is to prevent attacks, or, when the attacks have established, to check them as much as possible. In the latter case the...
5. CHAPTER IV.No doubt owing to the endless assortment of sizes, from mere specks to giants of a few inches, a widespread idea has arisen, particularly in regard to such insects as have a gen...
7. CHAPTER VI.The small, soft-bodied plant-lice, or aphides, usually found forming dense colonies on all sorts of plants, are pests well known to every gardener; they attack plants by inserti...
10. CHAPTER IX.Mites, together with spiders and ticks, belong to a group of animals distinct from the insects, from which, they differ in many respects; for example, they possess four, and not...
9. CHAPTER VIII.The moth itself is seldom seen, since it lies concealed until after nightfall, when it becomes active and lays its eggs. The insect (Fig. 12a) measures about three-quarters of a...
3. CHAPTER II.In the first chapter the plants were referred to as the primary producers of life, and the animals as the consumers; the former not only furnish nourishment for their own growth...
4. CHAPTER III.Although insects present a great variety of forms, they nevertheless agree in general features; thus by studying the structure of some generalised species, which will give a bro...
2. CHAPTER I.At the outset it is advisable, by reviewing the animal kingdom as a whole, to secure in perspective the relationships of the animals with which the horticulturist has to deal.
1. Chapter x.: Principles of Pest Control 74This work deals with the insects and other animals having a detrimental or beneficial influence upon horticulture in New Zealand. Its purpose is to supply such general informati...