Manual of vegetable-garden insects . ash bug is a most troublesomeand vexatious pest. The adult bugs hibernate inrubbish, in board-piles or underany convenient shelter. Theyemerge from winter quartersrather late in the spring and areoften found about gardens restingunder pieces of boards or othershelter, apparently waiting for thesquashes to come up. The adultbug (Fig. 72) is about f inch inlength and of a dirty brownishblack color above and brown mottled wath black below. The old bugs attack the plantsas soon as they are well out of the ground and often kill themoutright. In feeding, the inse
Manual of vegetable-garden insects . ash bug is a most troublesomeand vexatious pest. The adult bugs hibernate inrubbish, in board-piles or underany convenient shelter. Theyemerge from winter quartersrather late in the spring and areoften found about gardens restingunder pieces of boards or othershelter, apparently waiting for thesquashes to come up. The adultbug (Fig. 72) is about f inch inlength and of a dirty brownishblack color above and brown mottled wath black below. The old bugs attack the plantsas soon as they are well out of the ground and often kill themoutright. In feeding, the insect punctures the plant withthe bristles of its beak and sucks out the sap. At the sametime it apparently injects into the wound some injuriouspoison. When the plants are small, a few punctures areenough to cause serious injury. After mating, the femaledeposits her eggs in clusters of three or four to fifty or moreusually on the under surface of the leaves. The arrangementof the eggs varies greatly; usually they are placed in more or. Fi( I. — The hug,adult (X 21).
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