Excerpt from The Scottish Naturalist: A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Zoology; January, 1916 This is an excellent book. The author, by dint of careful and laborious literary research, has succeeded in producing, in well-chosen language, a capital summary of present-day economic entomology. In a little over 300 pages the reader is furnished with a concise, yet not too stinted, account of the habits and life-histories of the more important insect friends and foes occurring in all parts of the world. From a perusal of this most interesting volume it is easy to realise that insect enemies are much in the ascendant, and that the class as a whole is therefore inimical to human welfare. The subject matter is well arranged, the typography good, and the illustrations, which number one hundred (in addition to 16 plates) clear and well-chosen There is a full index and a bibliography of over 200 titles, the latter enabling more detailed information to be readily found by anyone desirous of supplementing the information given in the preceding text. We can cordially recommend Mr Ealand's work as a most useful and readable epitome of an all-important and fascinating subject. It is an honest and extremely successful endeavour to compress within a moderate compass the main results of many years of research and experiment on the part of man in his effort to take full advantage of the few benefits conferred and to minimise and control the more numerous injuries caused by tiny creatures which out-number, both in individuals and in species, all other classes in the animal kingdom. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.