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Title: Shipment of Black Scale parasites from South Africa. 1912 (2 views)
Contributor: California. State Commission of Horticulture. Insectary Division
California. State Insectary
Date Created and/or Issued: [1912]
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: Plates in: [Album of mounted photographs illustrating the work of the California state insectary, Sacramento : Photographs taken from 1910-1912] / California state insectary, Sacramento, pg. 27a - 27b.
View 1 (2014-1677 ) -- view 2 (2014-1678).
The Insectary Division of the Commission of Horticulture was responsible for collecting, breeding and disseminating predaceous insects as a means of controlling harmful insects. As part of that work, they collected and disseminated the native species of ladybird (ladybug) beetle or coccinellids, notably Hippodamia convergens.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 2 photographic prints ; 3 x 4 1/8 in.
Identifier: (C)001513536CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: California. State Insectary--Photographs
Biological pest control--California--Sacramento
Sacramento (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Photograph albums
Place: California
Sacramento
Sacramento (Calif.)

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