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HOW TO GET RID OF INSECT PEST

By Dr. CLYDE C. HAMILTON

Three-fourths of the spocles of animal life consist of insecte. A single plant, under some condi- ilons, may easily have from 50,000 to 100,000 insects upon it, do abundant are the number of in- dividuals of any one kind.

A complete generation of some forms of insects may develop with- in alx to 10 days, and they grow and reproduce so rapidly that tree.

mendous number may appear al- most overnight.

The control of these dangerous little organisms, therefore, cannot be overlooked by the efficient gar

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The hom l- spherical scalo, wh Leh infeats ferna and other house plantă, represents 籍 group of insects with Bucking

mouth parts and one which it in difficult to control on grow- Ing Jiangs. Many of the insects are protected by a hard shell scale-like cover. ing over the body.

On woody plants they may be killed by ap plications of dor mant oil

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lime nulphur sprays put This grotesque when the trees are in a resting erenture Is the stage, or during the summer or famillur TARB very early spring. Some specles hopper. It rep-may be killed during the summer resents 貔

group with soap and nicotine sprays or of inseels that with summer white oil sprays, ap bite off chew, plied when the young scale in and swallow bits sects are crawling.

of solid, green ||

food. Notice that The white spots in photo, tap the mouth parts right, are Mexlean mealy bugs.

Drawing after thed in bling the black spots the lady-bird

Crosby and

Leonard,

Courtesy MacMillan

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work from the beetle, a predator. Menly bugs alle of the head. are also sucking inacets, but their Such Insects bedles and exg masses are cover- may be controlled with a white, powdery or woolly, ed by spraying or wax-like material that makes them dusting. with

Sonie pojemnous very dificult to wet and kill with material, such as arsenate of lead, contact aprays. the plants which they molest.

Uses

The tarnished plant bug, here,

different JE

method In abtaining its food. Its mouth parts are slender, long, and needle-

Flowering planis badly infested with those pesta should be dès- troyed entirely or should have the

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1935.

The Annual Inspection Parade and March Past of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps was held res cently when the salute was taken by Brigadier F. S. Thackeray, D.9.0., M.C., outside the Country Club'. on Bubbling Wall Road. Photo at top right shows. Colonel F. R. W. Grakat, D.5.0., M.C., Command. ing the S.V.C., Brigadier Thackeray and Mr. H. E. Arnhold, Chairman of the S.M.C4 and Civil Com mandant of the Corpa át the saluting base. Upper left, the Shanghai Scottish marching past. Lower

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like, and by thrusting them through the surface of the food, it sucks out the juices."

In checking such insects, it is! necessary to apply a spray or slust | directly to the body of the insect. These are called “contact sprays," because they kill the insect by! coming in direct contact with its body.

Portunately, ' muu does not, 1 hurve to dependi upon

own

elforts alone in Bghting insects, ! Many climate and biological factors help him, Several species of insects, for in-

stance, feed upon

ather Insects, &

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gioved art cl

eved. Plant- worth saving may be freed by thorough and repented spraying with contact sprays, such as nicotine.and soap, or summer white oil sprays.

PEMA

LARVA

characteris Lic The larva, or young, of the wood which has given leopard moth bores its way inside them the game of the stems of many wood plants, as predators and shown above. Such insects must

aruxiles.

be controlled by Injection into the The praying | burrow made by the larva of some i mantis, above, is one of the most material poisonous the insect. spectacular of these predators. The Nicotine solutions or carbon bisul- phide liquid are frequently used. more inconspicuous parasites and They may also be killed by prod predators are usually the most ding with a flexible wire, or by beneficial.

cuting them out."

The 20th anniversary of the historic landing of the Australian and New Zealand Forces on the shores of Gallipoli was celebrated in Shanghai and throughout the world recently. Members of the Shanghai Anae Society and representatives of the Allied Forces gatherad, 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 assem- bled at the Cenotaph as Dean A.-C. S. Trivett-offered-a- prayer. Below: Mr. W. G. Crokam and Mr. Simpson, Pro- sident and Vice-President of the Anzac Society, are seen carrying the Society's wreath. Behind them, Mr. J. D. E. Shotter and Captain Turner Cola are seen, with the wreath of the Royal Air Forces. At right, Col. F. R. W. Graham, D.S.O., M.C., S. V. C. Com mandant, and Major Burke-Murphy, M.C., are seen walking ahead of D.R.Q.M.S. 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, Giri Guider, Brownles and Cubs by Admiral Sir Frederic Droyer, Commander-in-Chief of the China Station. He is liare con convers

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