Chapter 1: Entomology as Applied to Gardens

• Insect control in gardens
• Insects distinguished from vertebrated animals
• Oviparous insects
• The larva or caterpillar
• Larvae feeding
• The pupa or chrysalis
• The imago, or winged form
• Lives of insects
• The sexes of insects
• Insect species
• On the arrangement or classification of insects
• Winged insects (Ptilota Aristotle) and Apterous insects
• Classification of insects
• Uniformity of classification
• The flea, earwig, Thrip, Stylops, and caddice-fly
• Coleoptera
• The cockchafer
• Weevils (Curculio L.)
• The wireworm
• The small jumping beetle, turnip fly Haltica nemorum
• Orthoptera
• The cock-roach Blatta orientalis
• The house cricket (Gryllus domesticus L.)
• The migratory locust Locusta migratoria
• The earwig (Forficula auricularia)
• Neuroptera
• The white-ants
• The Ephemerﾵ;, or May flies
• The moth-flies or case worms (Phryganea rhombica)
• Hymenoptera
• Lepidoptera
• Butterflies (Papilionidﾵ)
• Caterpillars
• The only butterflies injurious to cultivated vegetables
• The Hawk Moths (Sphingidﾵ)
• The injurious species of hawk moths
• Moths (Phalﾵnﾵ L.)
• Species of moths most injurious to the gardener
• Lettuce pests
• Fruit tree pests and caterpillars
• Fruit tree infestations
• Garden caterpillars
• Hemiptera
• Aphides, or Plant-lice (the green-fly)
• Aphid pests
• Scale insects (Cocci)
• Diptera
• Dipterous insects
• Dipterous insects and vegetables
• The different crane-flies (Tipulidﾵ)
• The flesh fly, the cheese fly, and the gnat
• Apterous or wingless class of insects
• Worms (Vermes L.)
• Earth-worms (Lumbricus terrestris L.)
• Slugs are the greatest pests
• The shell-slug (Testacellus Maugei)
• Snails are slugs covered by a shel

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