THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY,
MAY
1935.
HOME GARDENING: XII
HOW TO GET RID OF INSECT PEST
By Dr. CLYDE C. HAMILTON
Three-fourths of the species of animal life consist of insects. A single plant, under some condi- tions, may easily have from 60,000 to 100,000 insects upon 11, no abundant are the number of in- dividuals of any one kind.
A complete generation of some forms of insects may develop with-i in nix to 10 days, and they grow and reproduce so rapidly that tre- mendous numbers may appear al- most overnight.
The control of these dangernus little organlams, therefore, cannot be overlooked by the efficient gar dener.
F
Tho bom i- spherical aenlo, which intesta ferns and other house planta, repres on to group of insects with Bucking mouth parts, and one which it la cult to control on grow. ing arts. Many of the insects are protected by a hard shell or scale-like cover- ink over the body.
On woody plants they may be killed by ap plications at dør- mant oil
sulphur spraya put, on This grotesque when the trees are in a resting creature is the stage, or during the summer or familiar
very early spring. Some species
resents
hopper. It rep- may be killed during the summer roup with soap and nicotine sprays or of insects that with summer white oil sprays, ap- bito alf. chow. and swallow bits sects are crawling.
plier when the young scale in-
of solid green! food. Notice that] The white spots in plata, tap the mouth parts right, are Mexicau menly bugs, Used in biting the black spots the lads-bird work from the beetle, a predator. Mealy bugs side of the bend are also sucking, inserts, but their
Such
insects dies and egg masses pre-cover- may be vantroil-!
ed with a white, powdery or woolly, ed by spraying or was-like material that makes them dusting, with 2014
poisonous | very difficult to wet and kill with material, such as arsenate of feast, ontact sprays. the plants which they modère,
Drawing after Crosby and Leonard, Courleny MacMillan
The tarnished plant big, heroj ***5
different methet in obtaining it food. Its mouth' parts are slender, long, and needle-
Flowering plants badly Infested with The posts should be des troyed entirely or should have the
The Angual Inspection Parada and March Fast of the Shanghai Volunteer Corpa was held ya- cantly when the salute was taken by Brigadiar F. S. Thackeray, D.S.O., M.C., outside the Country Club on Bubbling Well Roed. Photo si top right shows Colonel F. R. W. Graham, D.3.0, M.C., Command. ing the S.V.C., Brigadier Thackeray and Mr. H. E. 'Arabold, Chairman of the S.M.C., and Civil Com- mandant of the Corps at the saluting base. Upper loft, the Shanghai-Scottish marching past, Lower
right shows the American Troop and Jower left the Light Horse.
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Denwing after Crosby and Leonarð
Courtesy MacMillan.
ke, and by thrusting them through the surface of the food,
it sucks out the juices.
is
In checking much insects, necessary to apply a spray or dust, directly to the body of the insect. These are called "contact sprays." because they kill the insect by! -coming-in-direct-contact-with-itar
body..
Partenatly, man does not have te dequel? apon his wry efforts alone ini fighting insects, ‡ Many climatic an biological!
·factors hely him.! Several species of ¦ insects. for in-
stanco, feed upon) other intels, al
injured parts ent out and th traged. Plants worth saving may he freed by thorough and repeated spraying with contact sprays, such as nicotine and soap, or summer white oil sprays.
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characteris tiel The larva, or young, of the wood which has given copard moth bores its way inside them the name of the stems of many wood plánts, as predators andhown above. Such insects must parasites.
be controlled by injection into the The praying burrow made by the larva of some maats, above, is one of the must material poisonous. to the insect. spectacular of these predators. The Nicoline solutions or carbon bisul- more inconspicuous parasites and They may also be killed by prod
phide liquid are frequently used. predators are usually the most ding with a flexible wire, or by
cutting them out.
beneficial.
The 20th-anniversary of the historie landing of the Australian and New Zealand Foices on the shores of Gallipoli was celebrated in Shanghai and throughout the world recently. Members of the Shanghai Anzac Society and representatives of the Allied Forces gathered at the War Memorial on the Bund to pay tribute to the men who lost their lives in that disastrous chapter of the World War., Upper photo shows a section of those assam. bled at the Canstipli as Dean A. C. S. Trivett offered » prayer. Below. Mr. W.G..Crokam and Mr. Simpson, Eres sident and Vice-President of the Anesc Society, are seen carrying the Society's wreath, Behind them, Mr. J. D. E. Shotter and Captain Turner Cols are seen, with the wreath of the Royal Air Forces. At right, Col. F. R. W. Graham, D.S.O., M.C., 5. V. C. Cont mandant, and Major Burke-Murphy, M.C., ars seen walking ahead of O.R.Q.M.5, Cunningham, who is carrying the S. V. C. wreath.
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One of the most interesting events in conection with the. King's Jubilee was the Shanghai inspection of the Boy Scouts, Girl Guides, Brownies and Cubs by Admiral Sir Frederic Dragar, Commander-in-Chief of the China Station. He is here soon conver sing with Senuts during the inspection at Kisochow Road Camp.
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distribution of birth control `in-
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FAMILIES ON RELIEF
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Edith Anna Eloyd of the Cottage, that the parents on relief through Corse Lawn, Tewkesbury, Glouces- WOULD BENEFIT · out the country, north, east, tershire, who loft unsettled estate
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Countless families on relief, have birth control Information | averywhere disregard this law to already burdened by large and are asking social workers at their private patients, but. in families, want and are grateful for it." for birth control information, Dissemination of birth control many places are afraid to assist Mrs. Margaret Sanger, tireless information by physicians is legal birth control work in clinics and birth control advocate, assorts.in every stato except Connecticut, hospitals because they might in- Studies showing a higher-than-Pennsylvania and Mississippi, but volve those institutions in legal average birth rate among relief Federal law forbids inter-stato dimenlties. Reportedly bills have
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amond the law. but they have al giving birth control information Mrs. Sanger · said: physicions|ways failed.—United Press.
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