Report of the Injurious and Other Insects of the State of New York (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: INJURIOUS INSECTS. Monomorium Pharaonis (Linn.). The Little Red Ant. (Ord. Hymenoptera: Fam. Myrmicide.) Linneus: Syst. Nat, Tom. i, pars ii, 1767, p. 963 (described as formica Pharaonis). Say: in Boston Journ. Nat. Hist., i, 1835, pp. 293-294 (Myrmica molesta, description, habits): Comp. Writ., Lec. Edit., ii, 1883, p. 737. Fitch: in Trans. N. Y. State Agr. Soc. for 1854, 1855, p. 833, 834; same in ist Rept. Nox.-Ben. Ins. N. Y., 1856, pp. 129-130 (habits in houses, fields); in Trans. N. Y. State Agr. Soc. for 1865, 1866, p. 133, (Myrmica molesta on corn, attacking cutworms). Packard: Guide Study Ins., 1869, p. 185 (Myrmica molesta in houses all over the world); Entomol. for Beginn., 1888, p. 171 (mention). Riley: 2nd. Mo. Rept., 1870, p. 1 1 (Myrmica molesta troublesome in England, widely distributed); 9th do., 1877, p. 43 (in England); in Scientific Amer., lii, 1885, p. 183 (as small red ant, remedies); in Insect Life, ii, 1889, pp. 106-108, fig. 18 (Myrmica molesta a synonym, life-history, remedies). Bethune: in 11th Ann. Rept. Ent. Soc. Ont. for 1880, 1881, p. 88 (remedies for ants in houses). Lintner: ist Rept. Ins. N. Y., 1882, p. 62 (remedies, synonymy), p. 321 (injuring corn); 10th do., 1895, p. 366 (Monomorium molestum in walks); in Gardening, iv, 1895, p. 12 (remedies for red ants in houses). Comstock: in Kingsley's Stand. Nat. Hist., ii, Crust, and Ins., 1884, p. 520 (mention as Myrmica molesta). Bowles: in i5th Ann. Rept. Ent. Soc. Ont., 1885, p. 63 (Myrmica molesta, mention). Hunt: in Miss. Ess. Econom. Ent., 1886, p. 58 (as Solenopsis molesta, on corn, etc.). Cresson: Synopsis Hymenop. Amer., 1887, p. 262. Bellevoye: in Ann. Soc. Entomol. France, viii, 1888, pp. clxxvii-clxxxi (observation on in F...