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Garden Pests in New Zealand A Popular Manual for Prictical Gardeners, Farmers and Schools
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Archaic spellings such as ‘sedementary’ and ‘millepedes’ have not been altered, and the following spelling inconsistencies have also been left as in the original text: omnivorous/omnivorus, eleagnus/elæagnus, silverfish/silver-fish, woodlice/wood-lice, blowfly/blow-fly.
The following typographic errors have been corrected:
kindom —> kingdom
aphis lion —> aphis-lion
Jose —> José
ocurring —> occurring
necesary —> necessary
Crytolæmus —> Cryptolæmus
Crape —> Grape
pupuli —> populi
GARDEN PESTS in NEW ZEALAND A Popular Manual for
Practical Gardeners, Farmers
and Schools
By
Cawthron Institute, Nelson
CONTENTS.
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Introduction
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| Chapter i.: |
General Review of the Animal Kingdom7
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| Chapter ii.: |
Soil Organisms and Soil Fertility12
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| Chapter iii.: |
Structure of Insects17
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| Chapter iv.: |
Life Histories of Insects22
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| Chapter v.: |
Sucking Insects29
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| Chapter vi.: |
Sucking Insects (Concluded)42
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| Chapter vii.: |
Leaf-feeding Insects50
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| Chapter viii.: |
Boring and Underground Insects61
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| Chapter ix.: |
Miscellaneous Pests67
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| Chapter x.: |
Principles of Pest Control74
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Index
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Introduction
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 act as a popular guide for the use of practical gardeners and schools, and at the same time serve as a source from which the examination requirements set out in the syllabus of the New Zealand Institute of Horticulture may be met.
As this work is for the benefit of the gardening public, and an endeavour to diffuse some knowledge of certain natural problems, the language of the scientist—which, unfortunately, tends to guard what is known of these problems from the general reader—has been avoided as much as possible; at times, however, this ideal cannot be adhered to, but in such cases the reader should find no difficulty, and should be prepared to become familiar, with the few terms used. To know the scientific names of animals without being acquainted with the animals themselves is a habit to be avoided, and is just about as instructive as memorising the names of people in a town or telephone directory. But animals must be named; though their popular names are used in the following pages and as such names are very often misleading, the scientific names are given in brackets in order to avoid confusion.
In such a work as this, illustrations are of great value, and these are given wherever possible. One drawback to illustrations is that the relative proportions of animals may be lost; for example, a microscopic organism might require magnification by some 4,000 times its natural size and so become equal to that of some of the most conspicuous insects. Even with the best illustrations, however, it is essential that the reader becomes familiar with the animals themselves. This should present no difficulty to the reader, since he will find in his garden all of the animals with which he is concerned—mostly insects and their near relatives. Further, of very great assistance to him, he will find the