Crossword-Solution: VEDALIA 7 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Koebele, on his return in April, 1889, brought with him many more living specimens which he had collected on his way home in New Zealand, where the same Vedalia had been accidentally introduced a year or so before.

But in Italy it lives commonly in another scale insect, and with the assistance of the learned Italian, Professor Antonio Berlese, the writer made an unsuccessful attempt to introduce and establish it a year earlier in some of our Southern States, where it was hoped it would destroy certain injurious insects known as "wax scales." In the meantime the United States, not content with keeping all the good things to herself, has spread the first ladybird imported--the _Vedalia_--to other countries.

The _Vedalia_ was earlier sent to the people in Alexandria and Cairo, Egypt, where a similar scale was damaging the fig trees and other valuable plants, and the result was again the same, the injurious insects were destroyed.

The former attacks apple and pear; the latter, which selects orange and citron, was introduced into America from Australia, and carried ruin before it in some orange districts until its natural enemy, the lady-bird beetle, _Vedalia cardinalis_, was also imported.

The Icerya scale (_Icerya purchasi_) imported into America ruined the orange groves, but its enemy, the _Vedalia_, was also imported from Australia, and counteracted its abnormal increase with such great results that the crippled orange groves are now once more profitable.