File:A handbook of the destructive insects of Victoria - with notes on the methods to be adopted to check and extirpate them (1891) (14595282247).jpg

Identifier: handbookofdestru01fren (find matches)
Title: A handbook of the destructive insects of Victoria : with notes on the methods to be adopted to check and extirpate them
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: French, Charles, 1843- Victoria. Dept. of Agriculture
Subjects: Beneficial insects -- Australia Victoria Insect pests -- Australia Victoria Insects -- Australia Victoria
Publisher: Melbourne : Robt. S. Brain
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
INIathew Cooke mentions that he believes, in America atleast, there is but the one brood in a year. This should beencouraging news for us; but as a change of climate oftencauses a change of condition both in plants and animals,we must not trust too much to the chances of its beingproved that there is only one brood of the Apple Scale inVictoria, as the fact has yet to be determined by patientobservation and research. 82 DESTKUCTIVE INSECTS OF VICTORIA: PLATE VIII. Apple Beetle (Doticus pestilens.—Oliff). Fig. 1. Stem of apple tree, showing effects of beetle on fruit, the small hole in each apple being where the fruit nas been perforated.Natural size. (From nature.) 2. Larva (or grub). Magnified. (From nature.) 3. Larva (or grub). Natural size. (From nature.) 4. Perfect insects. Magnified. (From nature.) 5. Perfect insect (male). Natural size. (From nature.)oA. Perfect insect (female). Natural size. (From nature.) 6. Outline of head of perfect insect. Highly magnified. (From na*^re.)
Text Appearing After Image:
Plato vm. ■I:.- •i^M-DGU^ai4 Ltrri^rrrtp THE APPLE BEETLE. 83 CHAPTER XIII. THE APPLE BEETLE. ( Doticus pestilens.) Order: Coleoptera. Family: AntlorihidcB. About tlie middle of November, 1889,1 received fromMr. Stiggants, orchardist, of Warraiidyte, Victoria,specimens of a little known but very destructive beetle,together with a quantity of shrivelled apj^les. The insectbeing quite new to me, I sent it to Mr. Oliff, in Sydney,with the request that he would examine and compare itwith beetles in the very rich Sydney collections, and, ifnew, descril3e it. Upon examination, Mr. Olift found thatthis particular Apple Beetle was new to science, and hehas, from the information furnished by myself as to itsdepredations, given it the very appropriate specific nameof pestilens. This new destroyer of apples is a smallbrownish beetle measuring about two lines in length (seePlate VIIL, Figs. 4, 5, 5a), covered with reddish-greydown. The antennce (horns) being slightly clubbed,elytra (wing case

Note About Images