With a fruit farm in the country frequently visited, and a fruit garden in town, my opportunities for observing the times and doings of insect foes and friends are sufficiently ample to satisfy the desires of the most active and enthusiastic “bug-hunter” that ever carried a net. Norv a swarm of caterpillars disfigures the form and mars the beauty of a handsome tree, by consuming a considerable part of its foliage ; again, a host of aphides, by their constant sucking of the juices of the leaves, will cause them to shrivel, curl up, and often change colour, and the enormous rate at which these creatures increase adds much to the difficulty of their extermination ; or some unwelcome “little Turk” sits down uninvited to feast on our finest fruits, and, not satisfied with appeasing its own appetite, leaves its progeny behind to complete the work of destruction; or it may be some rascally borer insidiously undermines one's fondest hopes by girdling and thus destroying trees or shrubs whose growth has cost years of toil and watching