The southern corn leaf-beetle . Fig. 1.—Young Corn Plants Killed by Adults of the Southern Corn Leaf-Beetle. (Original.). Fig. 2.—Corn Plant Completely Destroyed by the Southern Corn Leaf-Beetle. (Original.) WORK OF THE SOUTHERN CORN LEAF-BEETLE. THE SOUTHERN CORN LEAF-BEETLE. 9 first planting having been entirely destroyed. The devastation of1914 was very severe but not so heavy as in 1913. Considerable search on cotton and wheat growing in the vicinityof infested cornfields near Paris, Ark., developed no damage to thesecrops. DISSEMINATION. The beetles have powerful wings and have been obser
The southern corn leaf-beetle . Fig. 1.—Young Corn Plants Killed by Adults of the Southern Corn Leaf-Beetle. (Original.). Fig. 2.—Corn Plant Completely Destroyed by the Southern Corn Leaf-Beetle. (Original.) WORK OF THE SOUTHERN CORN LEAF-BEETLE. THE SOUTHERN CORN LEAF-BEETLE. 9 first planting having been entirely destroyed. The devastation of1914 was very severe but not so heavy as in 1913. Considerable search on cotton and wheat growing in the vicinityof infested cornfields near Paris, Ark., developed no damage to thesecrops. DISSEMINATION. The beetles have powerful wings and have been observed in fieldslong distances from where they originated. Especially was this truein one instance, during the fall of 1910, where it was positively knownthat they developed in certain bottom-land fields, later migrating 2miles to a field of late upland corn, where great numbers of them werefound feeding upon the belated ears. In this last-mentioned fieldthe farmer planted wheat and in the operation the drill raked uppiles of the corn leaves, among which great numbers of the beetleshibernated during the following win
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