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Of course, plant lice are more common. Those we see are often green in colour. But they may be red, yellow
or brown. Lice are easy enough to find since they are always clinging to their host. As sucking insects they have
to cling close to a plant for food, and one is pretty sure to find them. But the biting insects do their work, and
then go hide. That makes them much more difficult to deal with.
Rose slugs do great damage to the rose bushes. They eat out the body of the leaves, so that just the veining is
left. They are soft-bodied, green above and yellow below.
A beetle, the striped beetle, attacks young melons and squash leaves. It eats the leaf by riddling out holes in
it. This beetle, as its name implies, is striped. The back is black with yellow stripes running
lengthwise.
Then there are the slugs, which are garden pests. The slug will devour almost any garden plant, whether it be a
flower or a vegetable. They lay lots of eggs in old rubbish heaps. Do you see the good of cleaning up rubbish? The
slugs do more harm in the garden than almost any other single insect pest. You can discover them in the following
way. There is a trick for bringing them to the surface of the ground in the day time. You see they rest during the
day below ground. So just water the soil in which the slugs are supposed to be. How are you to know where they are?
They are quite likely to hide near the plants they are feeding on. So water the ground with some nice clean lime
water. This will disturb them, and up they'll poke to see what the matter is.
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