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Excerpt from Insect Notes for 1912 Among the many insects which trouble the agriculturist, there is perhaps no one group which is more injurious than are the Coccidae or scale insects. In Maine there are a number of species but owing to their small size, and sombre coloring they are often passed. Unnoticed. The increasing practice of spray ing of orchard trees by our fruit growers will tend to check the spread of species already established and prevent new ones gaining a foot hold. As the insect has sucking mouth parts and lives upon the juices of the host plants, they must be fought by means of contact sprays, such as oil emulsions, whale oil soap, or lime-sulphur. The last mentioned remedy used late in the winter as a dormant spray, * is especially recommended. For most of the species of scales mentioned in the following account. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.