. Bulletin. Agriculture -- New Hampshire. we began observations upon the pest, together with experiments with meth- ods of combating it, and after his arri- val in July, Mr. Conradi, assistant en- tomologist, made an elaborate study ^ b of its life history. The results of these ^ig. 2. Squash Bug: ^, male; , . " , . , b, female. Natural size. observations and expernnents have already been published in Bulletin 89 of this station. The extraordinary severity of this squash bug attack is well indicated in the following letter from Mr. Arthur Smith of Piermont, written July 13 : \Ye are havin
. Bulletin. Agriculture -- New Hampshire. we began observations upon the pest, together with experiments with meth- ods of combating it, and after his arri- val in July, Mr. Conradi, assistant en- tomologist, made an elaborate study ^ b of its life history. The results of these ^ig. 2. Squash Bug: ^, male; , . " , . , b, female. Natural size. observations and expernnents have already been published in Bulletin 89 of this station. The extraordinary severity of this squash bug attack is well indicated in the following letter from Mr. Arthur Smith of Piermont, written July 13 : \Ye are having a scourge of black squash bugs. I do not know how widespread the pest is, but in this town it is so general that most of the squashes planted and many of the cucumbers have been killed. I can best show the extent of the evil by reporting my own experience. I planted fifteen hills; the plants came up well and I covered them with large screens of netting, as I always have done. I found, however, that the bugs went under the screens and got to the plants even though I had banked up the outside quite carefully. So I took the screens off when the plants were from seven to ten inches high, and depended upon hunting the bugs two or three times a day. I never had any trouble with this method before, but this year it seemed to be of ns) avail. One day, about two weeks ago, I took off 175 bugs from my vines at noon, and I had picked them clear in the morning, too. It seems to me clearly within bounds to say that I picked 250 bugs from these few hills that day. There were probably twice as many on that day as on any day before or since, but there has been a steady stream of them flowing from some- where. One after another my vines have drooped and died till now there are only four or five left out of the sixty or seventy thrifty plants with ^ Anasa tristis De Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability
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