[Illustration: The Toad may be rough and warty in appearance but worth its weight in gold as a destroyer of insect pests. Note the expression of satisfaction after a successful night of foraging for cutworms and June-beetles.]
AN ELEMENTARY STUDY OF INSECTS
_By_
LEONARD HASEMAN
_Professor of Entomology in the University of Missouri_
Columbia, Missouri MISSOURI BOOK COMPANY 1923
CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I INSECTS: (1) What they are. (2) Their principal characteristics. (3) Their methods of developing. (4) The principal orders. (5) Their habits. (6) Their role in agriculture.
CHAPTER II COLLECTING INSECTS: (1) Directions for collecting. (2) Pinning and preserving a collection. (3) Rearing and observing them while alive.
CHAPTER III THE GRASSHOPPER: (1) Brief discussion of the grasshopper. (2) Field studies. (3) Breeding cage observations. (4) Study of specimen.
CHAPTER IV THE HOUSE FLY OR TYPHOID FLY: (1) Discussion of the life cycle of the fly, its habits, danger from it and how it can be stamped out. (2) Study of the fly and its work.
CHAPTER V THE MOSQUITO: (1) Brief discussion of the life habits and stages of the mosquito. (2) Observations and study.
CHAPTER VI THE CABBAGE MILLER: (1) Brief discussion of the caterpillar, the chrysalis, the butterfly, and its work. (2) Observations and study. (3) Breeding work.
CHAPTER VII THE APPLE WORM: (1) Brief discussion of the different stages of the pest, its work and remedies for its control. (2) Observations and breeding work.
CHAPTER VIII THE TOMATO OR TOBACCO WORM: (1) Brief discussion of stages, work and habits. (2) Study and observation.
CHAPTER IX THE FIREFLY: (1) Brief discussion of the insect. (2) Observations and studies.
CHAPTER X THE WHITE GRUB OR JUNE-BUG: (1) Discussion of the insect as a pest and its habits and stages. (2) Observations and studies.
CHAPTER XI THE COLORADO POTATO BEETLE: (1) Brief discussion of the pest. (2) Observations and studies.
CHAPTER XII THE LADY-BEETLE: (1) Brief discussion of habits and appearance of the lady-beetles, and their value as friends. (2) Observations and studies.
CHAPTER XIII THE DRAGON-FLY: (1) Discussion of life and habits of insect. (2) Observations and field studies.
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: An Elementary Study of Insects by Leonard Haseman
- 2: Especially in the rural districts
- 3: Hopping and creeping forms of insects
- 4: The feelers or antennae are usually threadlike
- 5: The digestive tube consists of oesophagus
- 6: Chinch bugs extracting sap from corn plant
- 7: While some insects are extremely injurious
- 8: Illustration A cyanide jar for killing insects
- 9: The grasshoppers are most troublesome
- 10: Feeds on filth in open closets
- 11: Oval pupa in stables and manure piles when
- 12: Put a few drops of formaldehyde
- 13: Larvae or wigglers of different sizes
- 14: Examine rain barrels for the larger wigglers
- 15: Illustration Pupa or chrysalis of cabbage miller
- 16: Do any of the wormy apples show rot
- 17: Are there as many wormy apples
- 18: Illustration Firefly beetles on sour dock leaf
- 19: The pupa and adult are shown above ground
- 20: The lady beetles comprise one family of small beetles
- 21: See if they feed on these lice
- 22: Illustration Cast off skin of dragon fly nymph
- 23: The squash bug feeds largely on squash and pumpkins
- 24: If the study is made in the spring the louse on rose
- 25: Illustration Wooly apple aphis
- 26: When the bee returns to the hive
- 27: All the fields which thou doest see
- 28: Watch them collect the honey dew from the lice