. Manual of vegetable-garden insects. ember and are most abun-dant during the last half of July andthe first part of August. They feedravenously on the foliage and blossomsof their food plants but have a tend-ency to be scattered more uniformlythrough the fields than is the moreusual habit among attack potato, tomato, beet,eggplant, carrot, cabbage, turnip,radish, bean, pea, melon, corn, buck-wheat, clover, and in Oklahoma have been found very destruc-tive to ripening tomatoes. They also feed on cotton, clematis,arrow-leaf and pigweed. In Missouri egg-laying begins in Jul\
. Manual of vegetable-garden insects. ember and are most abun-dant during the last half of July andthe first part of August. They feedravenously on the foliage and blossomsof their food plants but have a tend-ency to be scattered more uniformlythrough the fields than is the moreusual habit among attack potato, tomato, beet,eggplant, carrot, cabbage, turnip,radish, bean, pea, melon, corn, buck-wheat, clover, and in Oklahoma have been found very destruc-tive to ripening tomatoes. They also feed on cotton, clematis,arrow-leaf and pigweed. In Missouri egg-laying begins in Jul\ and may continueuntil October. The female deposits her eggs in clusters ofabout 130 in small excavations in the ground wdiich she hollowsout and then covers them with earth. The same beetle maylay several batches of eggs in the course of her life. The eggis about T^ inch in length, smooth and shining, elongate, cylin-drical, rounded at the ends and of a pale yellowish color. Theeggs hatch in ten to twenty-two days. The newly hatched. Fiu. 184. — The stripedblister-beetle (X If). 304 MANUAL OF VEGETABLE-GARDEN INSECTS larva is about ^ inch in length and yellowish brown in color;the head is large and provided with a pair of strong jaws. Thelegs are long and slender and the body is elongate and taperstoward the tip, which is provided with two long setre. Onhatching, the young larvae run actively about and biu*row intothe soil, seeking for grasshopper eggs. They possess greatvitality and can survive without food for at least three soon as an egg-pod is found, the larva gnaws its way intothe capsule and begins feeding on the eggs; about eight daysafter beginning to feed, the larva molts. The second stagelarva is white, has a smaller head, shorter legs, and the twolong setse at the tip of the body have been lost. When in itsnatural position, the larva has its abdomen curled larva continues to feed on the grasshopper eggs and inabout a week molts a second time.
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