Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 154, Decatur, Adams County, 30 June 1927 — Page 6

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PLANT LICE ARE I DAMAGING TREES — Millions Os Pests Are Prevalent In AH Parts Os Indiana This Summer Indianapolis, Ind., Jun* 30. Thousands of trees in Indiana are this .season losing their foliage much earlier than usual and being considerably damaged, all due, says Harry F. Diet*, assistant state entomologist, to the millions of plant lice that seemingly are prevalent in all parts of the state, as 500 calls for assistance received at the state conservation department in the last ten days indicate. It is one of the worst seasons for plant lice in many years because of continued wet weather. Deitz says, and the state department in view that lice have attacked various species of plants such as rose hushes, spirea. tomatoes and many kinds of flowers, recommends a nicotine sulphate and soap spray which together with the natural parasitic enemies of lice, will go far to curtail their activity and damage. Plant lice are soft-bodied insects that cluster on the under sides of leaves and on young and tender shoots of plants in immense numbers. or infest the roots. Seventyfive kinds of plant lice have been recorded from Indiana infesting a wide range of plants. These vary in color from white, through various green and pink, to almost black. They suck the food carrying juices from plants through minute needlelike hollow beaks and give off a sweetish, sticky, varnish-like suitstance known as honey-dew. The most conspicuous of all plant louse infections in the state now is on Norway maples where the leaves have a varnished, sticky appearance and sidewalks beneath the trees are covered with this substance. Automobiles parked beneath infested trees become covered with it. If the leaves are examined there will be found large numbers of greenish-black marked lice on the leaf stems and the point from which the principal veins radiate toward the edges of the leaf. Drain on the food supply of trees due to loss of juices extracted by lice causes the green leaves to fall in great numbers.

Since plant, lice are sucking insects and penetrate the tissue through needle-like beaks, the most effective way to combat their ravages is through a poisonous substance sprayed directly on the lice. To this end the division Ipf entomology of the state conservation djepartment recommends a contact spray of nicotine sulphate and soap which must reach every insect to be most effective. However, on trees with heavy foliage such as Norway maples, use of a garden hose with a heavy water pressure directed on the lice is a very positive method for ridding th® leaves of them. Plant lice infestaitons jon other plants reported this season ar£ green lice on tips of spirea, green lice on the tips of roses, green lice on growing shoots of apples, green and pink lice on tomatoes and iris, black lice on the under sides of nasturtiums, black lice on the leaves of snowball, and rusty brown lice on the tips of plum and cherries. Natural enemies of plant lice such as the larvae and adults of the ladybird beatles, the larvae of the goldeneyed lace-wing flies and he maggots of “sweet bees" or syrphid flies are being found devouring lice and the grubs of which eat out the vital organs of their pest, are working together with science to bring the plant lice outbread under control. o “Billy” Sunday To Speak At Winona Lake, July 6 The Rev. “Billy" Sunday who has just closed a big evangelistic campaign in Bangor. Maine, and who with Mrs. Sunday will spend the summer at their ranch at Hood River, Oregon, will drop off on tlieir way west at Winona Sunday maintains his permanent residence. While at Winona, he will give his greatest lecture, dramatic, humorous and enlightening, on Wednesday evening. July 6. in the “William A. Sunday Tabernacle,’’ seating 8,000 people. The ability and world renown of Mr. Sunday is recognized at home as well as abroad. While he has perhaps spoken more often on the Winona platform than any other person, it is also true that his audiences hove been greater than those of any other speaker. An announcement that Mr. Sunday will speak is all that is necessary to bring the thousands from miles around. Mr. and Mrs. Sunday are not residents only, but are real benefactors to Winona Lake Institutions, and their coming at this time to assist in j

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