Losses to cotton, what to look for and where to find it, being one of a series of articles in relation to crops, their common diseases and insect pests to which they are subject . arge, hollow stalks, but sometimes burrow a short dis-tance into the ground for pupation. The adult is a moth ofa wood-brown color sprinkled with yellowish dots. It isone of the night flyers. The eggs are laid in the earlysi)ring on the stalks attacked. This insect frequently be-<omes abundant enough to do serious damage to plants. White Grubs The young of the May beetles or June bugs are capableof devastating and
Losses to cotton, what to look for and where to find it, being one of a series of articles in relation to crops, their common diseases and insect pests to which they are subject . arge, hollow stalks, but sometimes burrow a short dis-tance into the ground for pupation. The adult is a moth ofa wood-brown color sprinkled with yellowish dots. It isone of the night flyers. The eggs are laid in the earlysi)ring on the stalks attacked. This insect frequently be-<omes abundant enough to do serious damage to plants. White Grubs The young of the May beetles or June bugs are capableof devastating and frequently destroying large portions offarm crops by eating the roots. The crops commonly dam-aged include two of our most important staples, namely,corn and potatoes, but the beetles also attack cotton andare often extremely destructive. These insects require three years to complete their lifecvcle, and usually only one l)rood is destructively active in 17 a given locality. An abundance of May beetles one yearforecasts a large growth of grnbs the following season. It should be remembered that injury from white grubs,as well as from many other pests, may be forestalled by. WHITE GRUBSShowing the 3-Year ] eriod of their cycle life. the correcting of farm practices; but after cotton or anyfield croj) has become infested it is imjiossible to preventfurther injury to that particular crop for the currentseason. The Garden Web Worm This widely distributed and common insect is espe-cially notable because of its occasional outbreak. Its ordi-nary food plants are a number of common weeds, especiallypigweed and purslane, but when these are used up because
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