Garden Pests in New Zealand
by David Miller
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About this eBook
- Author
- Miller, David, 1890-1973
- Title
- Garden Pests in New Zealand A Popular Manual for Practical Gardeners, Farmers and Schools
- Credits
- Produced by Chris Curnow, Thiers Halliwell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- SB: Agriculture: Plant culture
- Subject
- Insects -- New Zealand
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 45957
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45957
- Release Date
- June 13, 2014
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.GARDEN PESTS in NEW ZEALAND A Popular Manual for Practical Gardeners, Farmers and Schools
- 2.CONTENTS.
- 3.Introduction
- 4.CHAPTER I. — General Review of the Animal Kingdom. — Historical Review of New Zealand Conditions.
- 5.CHAPTER II. — Soil Organisms and Soil Fertility.
- 6.CHAPTER III. — Structure of Insects.
- 7.CHAPTER IV. — Life Histories of Insects.
- 8.CHAPTER V. — Sucking Insects. — Scale Insects and Mealy-bugs.
- 9.CHAPTER VI. — Sucking Insects—(Concluded). — Plant Lice, or Aphides. — Leaf-hoppers. — White-flies. — Thrips.
- 10.CHAPTER VII. — Leaf-Feeding Insects. — Earwigs. — Crickets and Grasshoppers. — Caterpillars. — Beetles.
- 11.CHAPTER VIII. — Boring and Underground Insects.
- 12.CHAPTER IX. — Miscellaneous Pests. — Mites. — Woodlice. — Millepedes. — Slugs and Snails. — Eelworms.
- 13.CHAPTER X. — Principles of Pest Control. — (a) Garden Management. — (b) Use of Chemicals. — (c) Influence of Natural Enemies. — Insects. — Birds. — Hedgehog.
- 14.INDEX.
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