Garden Pests in New Zealand / A Popular Manual for Practical Gardeners, Farmers and Schools

Transcriber’s notes :
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Archaic spellings such as ‘sedementary’ and ‘millepedes’ have not been altered, and the following spelling inconsistencies have also been left as in the original text: omnivorous/omnivorus, eleagnus/elæagnus, silverfish/silver-fish, woodlice/wood-lice, blowfly/blow-fly.
The following typographic errors have been corrected: kindom —> kingdom aphis lion —> aphis-lion Jose —> José ocurring —> occurring necesary —> necessary Crytolæmus —> Cryptolæmus Crape —> Grape pupuli —> populi
CAWTHRON INSTITUTE MONOGRAPHS
DR. D. MILLER
Ph.D., M.Sc., F.R.S.N.Z., F.R.E.S.
Assistant Director and Chief Entomologist, Cawthron Institute, Nelson


This work deals with the insects and other animals having a detrimental or beneficial influence upon horticulture in New Zealand. Its purpose is to supply such general information as will enable the common animal inhabitants of the garden to be identified and controlled, to act as a popular guide for the use of practical gardeners and schools, and at the same time serve as a source from which the examination requirements set out in the syllabus of the New Zealand Institute of Horticulture may be met.
As this work is for the benefit of the gardening public, and an endeavour to diffuse some knowledge of certain natural problems, the language of the scientist—​which, unfortunately, tends to guard what is known of these problems from the general reader—​has been avoided as much as possible; at times, however, this ideal cannot be adhered to, but in such cases the reader should find no difficulty, and should be prepared to become familiar, with the few terms used. To know the scientific names of animals without being acquainted with the animals themselves is a habit to be avoided, and is just about as instructive as memorising the names of people in a town or telephone directory. But animals must be named; though their popular names are used in the following pages and as such names are very often misleading, the scientific names are given in brackets in order to avoid confusion.