. Insect pests of farm, garden and orchard . successfulhibernation. Blister-beetles. Several species of elongate, grayish, black or bright greenblister-beetles feed in large numbers upon bean foliage. Thegeneral life history, ha))its, and remedies have been alreadydescribed. (See pages 107, 301.) 2he Ash-gray Blister-beetle *—This is the most common speciesaffecting beans in the East and westward to Kansas and beetle is a uniform ash-gray color and of the form shown in* Macrobasis unicolor Kby. INSECTS INJURIOUS TO BEANS AND PEAS 317 Fig. 230. The beetles attack this and other leg


. Insect pests of farm, garden and orchard . successfulhibernation. Blister-beetles. Several species of elongate, grayish, black or bright greenblister-beetles feed in large numbers upon bean foliage. Thegeneral life history, ha))its, and remedies have been alreadydescribed. (See pages 107, 301.) 2he Ash-gray Blister-beetle *—This is the most common speciesaffecting beans in the East and westward to Kansas and beetle is a uniform ash-gray color and of the form shown in* Macrobasis unicolor Kby. INSECTS INJURIOUS TO BEANS AND PEAS 317 Fig. 230. The beetles attack this and other legumes in immenseswarms, riddling the forest in a few days if not checked, andappear from the middle of June to the middle of Juh. NuttaWs BUster-beefle*—This species occui-s from the Miss-issippi west to the Rockies, through the region of the Missouri\alley, and north to the Northwest Territories, where it seems tobe particularly destructive to beams, though affecting manygarden vegetables. The life history is not known, but is probably.


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