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Title: The standard cyclopedia of modern agriculture and rural economy, by the most distinguished authorities and specialists under the editorship of Professor R. Patrick Wright ..
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Wright, Robert Patrick, 1857- ed
Subjects: Agriculture
Publisher: London, The Gresham publishing company
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ut the sap of 246 Coccidium oviforme — Cochin Fowl trunk, boughs, leaves, and fruit. Eeproductionis frequently asexual. Many have a world-widedistribution, having been distributed with theplants, such as the Mussel Scale. They are best destroyed by fumigation withhydrocyanic acid gas and washing with paraffinemulsion (see Cryptoooccus, Dacttlopius, My- TILASPIS, PULVINARIA, LeOANIUM, &C.). (f. v. t.)Coccidium oviforme (Liver Eot inRabbits).—This microscopic parasite belongs tothe lowest group of animals, called Protozoa, andto the order Coccidiidse. The pale spots foundon the liver of the rabbit are caused by thisCoccidium, which reproduces in the tissue of theliver, the spores being passed out in the excreta,and fall upon grass and in water, and are thentaken up Dy other rabbits. It is sometimesepizootic, and causes considerable mortality inboth wild and domesticated rabbits, (r. v. t.) Coccineiia. (Ladybirds), a genus of beetlesbelonging to the family Coccinellidse, pre-emi-
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Coccinella—Ladybirds. 1. Cluster of eggs. 2. Egg (greatly magnified). 3, 4. Larva(magpifled and nat. size). 6, 6. Pupss. 7, 8. Varieties ofTwo-spotted Ladybird (C. Mpunctata). 9. Seven - spottedLadybird ((7. septempunctata). ne.ntly serviceable in destroying plant lice oraphides. These pretty creatures, some of whichare very well known, deposit their eggs underthe leaves. These soon produce little blacklarvae (often called niggers), which immedi-ately search for the aphides, being not infre-quently surrounded by them, and these speedilyfall victims to their voracity, until the leafon which they were born is cleared. Havingchanged their skins, as they increase in sizethey disperse, and thus a plant or bush is some-times perfectly freed from the blight. Whenthe larvae are full grown, they remain motion-less, attach their tails to a leaf, or creep intoa chink of a tree, and change to pupae; fromthese the ladybirds emerge in about a fortnightin summer; but the autumn broods often re-mai

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