Chapter XXXI: Appendix: C (p. 143)

_Contents of Insect Cases Shown at the Bath and West of England Show at
St. Albans (May, 1896), now the Property of the University of
Edinburgh, kept along with Miss Georgiana Ormerod’s Diagrams in the
Museum of Science and Art, Edinburgh._

CASE I.—WEEVIL ATTACKS TO PEAS, BEANS, AND CLOVER-SEED, AND LEAFAGE. 1.
Infestations of Pea seed. 2. Infestations of Bean-seed. 3.
Clover-seed “Pear-shaped” Weevils. 4. Leaf-eating Weevils, and
gnawed Leaves.

CASE II.—ATTACKS TO CORN STEMS. 1. “Gout Fly” attack to young Barley,
also to ear and stalk. 2. Hessian Fly attack, showing Wheat-stems
elbowed at point of feeding of Maggot.

CASE III.—INFESTATIONS OF STORED CORN AND MEAL. 1. Granary Weevils in
Wheat. 2. Granary Moth in Wheat. 3. Meal and Flour Beetle in Meal.
4. Mite in Granary Rubbish.

CASE IV.—STORED CORN. Common Granary Weevil in Barley.

CASE V.—INFESTATION OF WHEAT MILLS AND STORES. Mediterranean Mill Moth,
and Flour felted together by its Caterpillars. (A very bad Mill
Pest).

CASE VI.—WASTE MATERIAL CLEANED OUT OF IMPORTED CORN. 1 and 2. “Rubble.”
3. “Hencorn.” 4. Broken Bits, used for bedding Pigs. 5 and 6. Uses
not given; supposed to be used for Adulteration.

CASE VII.—INFESTATIONS IN IMPORTED OR STORED FODDER; ALSO SPARROW’S
FOOD. 1. Locusts in Lucerne from Buenos Aires. 2. Hay-stack Moth
from Clover or Sainfoin Stacks. Food from Sparrow’s Crop containing
Corn.

CASE VIII.—FIELD CROP AND GRASS-ROOT INFESTATIONS. 1. “Click Beetles”
and their Grubs, known as “Wireworms.” 2. Turnip “Flea” Beetles and
Mustard Beetles. 3. Chafers and their Grubs.

CASE IX.—FIELD CROPS, ROOT, AND LEAF INFESTATIONS. 1. Cabbage and Turnip
Moths, and their “Surface” Root-feeding Caterpillars, also Cabbage,
and Pea-leaf Caterpillars. 2. “Mangold-leaf Fly” Maggot attack. 3.
Death’s-head Moth Potato-leaf Infestation.

CASE X.—APPLE INFESTATIONS. 1. American Blight. 2. Codlin Moth. 3.
Winter Moths, and their “Looper” Caterpillars, also Cabbage and
Pea-leaf Caterpillars. 4. Goat Moth, of which the Caterpillars feed
in Wood. 5. Lappet Moth, and its leaf-eating Caterpillars.

CASE XI.—PINE INFESTATIONS. 1. Pine-sheets distorted by Tortrix Moth
Caterpillar attack. 2. “Timberman” Beetle, with longest horns of any
European kind. 3. Pine beetle infestation in bark and shoots.

CASE XII.—ELM AND ASH-BARK INFESTATIONS. 1. Attacks of “Common” Elm-bark
Beetle, and of “Lesser” Elm-bark Beetle. 2. Attacks of “Ash-bark”
Beetle.

CASE XIII.—INSECT INJURIES TO WOOD AND LEATHER. 1. Sirex Tunnellings in
live Silver Fir. 2. “Death-watch” Beetle’s Borings in Oak and Beech
Timber. 3. Injuries of Maggots of another kind of Death-watch Beetle
to manufactured leather.

CASE XIV.—INFESTATIONS PARTLY BRED IN PONDS AND DITCHES. 1. Water
Beetles injurious, in Beetle or Grub state, but chiefly in both, to
young Fish in Ponds. 2. Liver-fluke of Sheep, and “Pond Snails,” in
which it lives in its early condition.

CASE XV.—FLY ATTACKS, INJURIOUS TO CATTLE, HORSES AND SHEEP. 1. Forest
Fly; also Sheep Spider Fly (popularly known as “Sheep Tick.”) 2. Bot
Flies, Common Horse Bot Fly, and Sheep-nostril Bot Fly. 3. Gad or
Breeze Flies.

CASE XVI.—OX AND DEER WARBLE. 1. Ox Warble Fly and Deer Warble Fly, in
different stages, with Maggots in spirit. 2. Piece of young
Red-deer’s Skin, showing swellings caused by Warble Maggots in the
under side.

CASE XVII.—INJURIES TO CATTLE HIDE, FROM OX WARBLE. 1. Pieces of Hide,
showing swellings with Maggots within, from the under-side; also
perforations in the outside, leading down to the Maggot-cell; also
sections of Hide, showing Channel down through the Hide, and
Maggot-cell cut through. 2. Pieces of Tanned Warbled Leather.