. Insects affecting vegetables [microform]. Légumes; Vegetables; Insect pests; Insectes nuisibles. Fig. 14.—^Wire-worms and Click-beetles. Fig. 15.—(a) Wire-worm; (6) cack-bCLtlo. For small patches, watering with kerosene emulsion, and washing it well in with plenty of water from the garden hose, will kill the grubs. Where large areas are found to be affected on golf-links or in pastures, the most effective plan is to •enclose the place with hurdles and turn in a few young pigs; they will soon root out and devour all the grubs, and may then be removed to another spot. WiREWORMS are the larvae
. Insects affecting vegetables [microform]. Légumes; Vegetables; Insect pests; Insectes nuisibles. Fig. 14.—^Wire-worms and Click-beetles. Fig. 15.—(a) Wire-worm; (6) cack-bCLtlo. For small patches, watering with kerosene emulsion, and washing it well in with plenty of water from the garden hose, will kill the grubs. Where large areas are found to be affected on golf-links or in pastures, the most effective plan is to •enclose the place with hurdles and turn in a few young pigs; they will soon root out and devour all the grubs, and may then be removed to another spot. WiREWORMS are the larvae of Click-beetles (Figs. 14 and 15), so called from their curious habit of springing up in the air with a "click" when laid upon their backs. The beetles are long and narrow, rounded above with very short legs and usually dull gray or black in color. The grubs are long and cylindrical, with a very hard integument from which they get the name of "Wireworms," and yellow •or whitish in color. The life history is very similar to that of the \Mute Grubs; they breed chiefly in old pastures, take two or three years to mature, and feed upon the roots of any plants that may be convenient to them; they are especially injurious to corn, and often may be found during the winter feeding inside potatoes, in which they burrow great holes. No treatment of the soil with salt, poisons, etc., has any effect upon them; the only remedy is a short rotation of crops as in the case of White Grubs; ploughing in August and cross-ploughing again in September will destroy large numbers of them. In gardens, as the 'beetles usually spend the winter under any shelter they can find, clean cultivation,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bethune, Charles J. S. (Charles James Stewart), 1838-1932; Onta
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