. Manual of fruit insects. ^, greenish-blue orsteel-blue beetle a little less than a fifth of an inch in lengththat eats out the contents and thus destroys the futurecane with its load offruit (Fig. 347).During the pastforty years this flea-beetle has causedserious injury andloss in vineyards inwidely separatedparts of the attacks, however,are usually confinedto limited areas andare not, as a rule,sustained in one lo-cality for a series ofyears. It is a nativeAmerican insect andoccurs from Kansasto Massachusettsand southward toFlorida and NewMexico. The vari-ous species of wildgrap
. Manual of fruit insects. ^, greenish-blue orsteel-blue beetle a little less than a fifth of an inch in lengththat eats out the contents and thus destroys the futurecane with its load offruit (Fig. 347).During the pastforty years this flea-beetle has causedserious injury andloss in vineyards inwidely separatedparts of the attacks, however,are usually confinedto limited areas andare not, as a rule,sustained in one lo-cality for a series ofyears. It is a nativeAmerican insect andoccurs from Kansasto Massachusettsand southward toFlorida and NewMexico. The vari-ous species of wildgrapes and the Vir-ginia creeper wereprobably its original -r.^ ^.- t., • « u *. / j- ^ -^ ° i?iG. 347. — The grape-vine flea-beetle feeding oo food-plants. a young grape shoot. 404 FRUIT INSECJ3 The beetles hibernate under trash, in grass land around theedge of the vineyards and are sometimes found under loose barkat the base of the vine. They emerge from hibernation in April or in May in New York just as the grape buds are swelling.
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