Report on miscellaneous cotton insects in Texas . 1900: 21st Rept Stat,- Ent. 111., p •• L904: , Div. Ent., I. S. Dept. Agric, p. 39. 32 MISCELLANEOUS COTTON INSECTS. part in the afternoon or early morning, and upon cloudy days, although a few maybe found on the plants at noon on bright days. The beetle punctures the tender m^ m -,f^ ?•?. ? ., r/:k ^* jfc.^y Wi ? ? ^^^v^^^B *|HPf^ ?. Fig. 17.—Work of Chalcodermus seneus: above, on young cowpeas; below, on youngcotton. (Photograph by Wilmon Newell.) stem, often just below a leaf, and this puncture reaches to the very center of thestem
Report on miscellaneous cotton insects in Texas . 1900: 21st Rept Stat,- Ent. 111., p •• L904: , Div. Ent., I. S. Dept. Agric, p. 39. 32 MISCELLANEOUS COTTON INSECTS. part in the afternoon or early morning, and upon cloudy days, although a few maybe found on the plants at noon on bright days. The beetle punctures the tender m^ m -,f^ ?•?. ? ., r/:k ^* jfc.^y Wi ? ? ^^^v^^^B *|HPf^ ?. Fig. 17.—Work of Chalcodermus seneus: above, on young cowpeas; below, on youngcotton. (Photograph by Wilmon Newell.) stem, often just below a leaf, and this puncture reaches to the very center of thestem or occasionally to the epidermis of the opposite side. Punctures occur upon SALT-MAB8H CATERPILLAR. -puis and the upper tender part of the main etem, often just below a leaf, batrarely apon the base of the r-tem near the ground. The punctures upon leaf -are BO close as to practically -ever the stem; th< eaf £ n wither- and dieedrops. In some cases the beetles seem to stay over the puncture after it is made antem. remaining over or clos< - ral punctures, indicating that a single individual may make several punctures an<l take the sap that accumu-late- in all of them. Punctures in a case of this kind are not over i - ath toone-eighth of an inch apart, and from two to four
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