As Australian produce merchants, millers, and farmers often suffer serious loss from insect at tacks on stored grain, the following particulars about these destructive pests, which were ...
Article : 289 wordsA phycitid moth, allied to the preceding, and known as the Indian meal moth, is widely distributed, and injurious to a great variety of edibles. It is nearly omnivorous, feeding on grain and ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 303 wordsIn addition to the loss in weight occasioned by these insects, grain infested by them is unfit for human consumption, and has been known to cause serious illness. Nor is such grain ...
Article : 204 wordsThe Angoumois grain moth derives its name from the province of Angoumois, France, where it is said to have been injurious for nearly a century and a half. It probably originated, with ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 782 wordsThis scourge of the flour mill, as it is called, has attracted much attention of recent years, and has been the subject of many articles and bulletins. Until the year 1877, when the moth ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 662 wordsA moth belonging to the family Pyralidae often occurs in barns and other buildings wherever farinaceous products are housed. In Europe, where it is known as the "meal moth," it has ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 182 wordsThe granary weevil is the "curculio" and "weevil" of early writings, and in the Georgies of Virgil there is evidence that the insect and its ravages were known before the Christian era. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 332 wordsStill another moth, known as the wolf moth or little grain moth, does considerable injury to stored cereals in Eurpe; but as it is not particularly destructive in America, requires only ...
Article : 145 wordsIn a recent issue of the "Annals of Botany," Mr. Watson describes the germination of the [?]bryo plants in this species. The fruit, as is well known, is a globular, woody fruit, with an ...
Article : 188 wordsThe rice weevil derives both its popular and Latin name from rice (Oryza), in which it was first found by its discoverer. It is conceded to have originated in India, whence it has been ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW : 1870 - 1919), Sat 12 Oct 1901, Page 28
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