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79) Moths cease flying from a little after 9 to a little before 11 P.M. Moonlight & windy & cold nights bad. A warm misty rain good. 

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[[male symbol]] [[underline]] more [[/underline]] liable by far to grease than [[female symbol]]

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Soak [[insertion]] [[strikethrough]] ^ & boil [[/strikethrough]] small [[/insertion]] greasy insects in benzole, [[strikethrough]] in a water bath [[/strikethrough]] [[insertion]] entire. [[/insertion]]

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[To kill mites - invert the drawer over a cloth moistened with naptha or an hour or more - (Haliday)

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Larger insects

"Take off abdomen & expose to heat of fire at 6 inches distance. If grease has run into thorax &c, [[strikethrough]] they [[/strikethrough]] those parts must be soaked in benzole. If [[strikethrough]] bo [[/strikethrough]] abd. very full of grease, the fire brings it to the surface. Simple soaking for a few days will remove the [[underline]] exterior [[/underline]] grease. Slit open abd, & soak for 24 hours, then boil rapidly as possible in about 1 1/2 oz. benzole in a water bath & a covered vessel (adding a little occasionally). Remove & wash with fresh benzole & dry on blotting paper. If done enough, abd. again exposed to fire will not dry out. This is the test of time" Dr. Wallace (Label abd.)

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April 3. Cut into my Spongifica galls. Out of 137 gathered June & July, came 28 aciculata (all dead) 13 larvae do [[ditto for: all dead]] & 2 pupae ditto [[ditto for: all dead]]; also 7 dead & dry Chalcid. (2 Decatoma & rest Callimome) & 2 [[female symbol]] callimome pupae, dead & decayed.

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June 25 * had opened 2: large larva alive & [[kicks?]]
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Out of 36 galls gathered Sep. 17 came 1 acciculata (dead), 2 larvae do & 1 pupa do; also 2 Callimome [[text covered by note]] & decayed), one mass of Chalcid. larvae ([[text covered by note]] & 5 whitish hairy Chalcid? or Ichneum?  [[text covered by note]]  Opened Aug 4 & found 1 callimome (imago alive) & 2 or 3 ditto pupae.* Possibly the "mass" & one of the 5 came [[text covered by note]] June & July lot of galls. May 22 came out hundreds = q. inanis chalc. May 8 {They grow on Red oaks; found lots under.

From "pseudo - {tinctorieae centricola}" galls, some of which were mixed with the [[underline]] spongifica [[/underline]] galls [[strikethrough]] & may therefore [[underline]] possibly [[/underline]] have grown on Black Oak]] [[/strikethrough]] came 8 Chalcid. alive & kicking { n. genus? ant. 6 - jointed]] see p.102 

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April 6. [[strikethrough]]  Asynapte [[/strikethrough]] Cecidomyia of [[underline]] strobiloides [[/underline]] (larger cecidomy.) laid very numerous [[strikethrough]] dark crimson [[/strikethrough]] [[insertion]] ^ blood red [[/insertion]] eggs (cylindrical) 3 times as long as wide .03 inch long & blunt pointed at each end) in the bottle where placed. [[strikethrough]] What becomes of their eggs in nature?  Strobil. galls not yet formed]] [[/strikethrough]]

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April 8. 14 Pseudo-tinctoriae gall gathered [[underline]] on the ground [[/underline]] under [[underline]] the [[/underline]] Red oak at Lib. 4-maculata corner.
Two (opened) contained each one [[image - pen drawing of larva]] whitish larva. April 10 gathered many more in the same place. The cell is spherical & the filaments adhere to it strongly.
Noticed a black oak on the bluff with 12 - 20 [[insertion]] of [[/insertion]] spong. galls on it ( [[strikethrough]] one [[/strikethrough]]  ^[[insertion]] 4 or 5 [[/insertion]]
gathered)  ^[[insertion]] all of [[underline]] cocciulae [[/underline]] kind [[/insertion]] & 10 yards from it a red oak with [[underline]] inanis [[/underline]] galls
A red oak (?) from which I gathered [[underline]] inanis [[/underline]] galls had [[underline]] q. pilulae [[/underline]] galls on its leaves.  [[strikethrough]] [Doubtful?] [[/strikethrough]] Yes: 18/5
Most of [[underline]] strobiloides [[/underline]] still contain [[strikethrough]] Nematus [[/strikethrough]] cecidomyia larvae. One or two have it in pupa, tinged with sanguineous [[text obscured by torn page]] head especially eyes [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] strongly sanguineous.

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