Insects injurious to fruits . n Orange Insectsunder the name of the white scale, Ceroplastes rusci are three broods during the year: the first appear inApril and May, the second from the middle to the end ofJuly, and the third during the first two weeks in increase with marvellous rapidity, but are preyed onby a species of Chalcid fly and by other insect enemies. No. 259.—The Broad hesperidum 416. Of all the bark-lice here treated of, few areso common, and none sowidely distributed, asthis species. It is foundin abundance fromWashington southw
Insects injurious to fruits . n Orange Insectsunder the name of the white scale, Ceroplastes rusci are three broods during the year: the first appear inApril and May, the second from the middle to the end ofJuly, and the third during the first two weeks in increase with marvellous rapidity, but are preyed onby a species of Chalcid fly and by other insect enemies. No. 259.—The Broad hesperidum 416. Of all the bark-lice here treated of, few areso common, and none sowidely distributed, asthis species. It is foundin abundance fromWashington southward N, >^ ^^^^HHk *^^ Florida, also in Utah and California, on thetwigs of orange andother trees, shrubs, and])lants; but, having somany different food-plants, it is not so de-structive to the orangeas are some others whichconfine their attacks tofreesofthe Cirrus scale is brown, some-times quite dark, and isrepresented of its natu-ral size on the stem of ig in Fig. 416. It is one of the largest scales found I.
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