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 . is mainlycaused by the ininctnres of a leaf hopper. This insectis most abnndant from the first of Jnne on through theseason. Prior to the first of June it seems to prefer theyoung growth and foliage of i)0]3lars and other trees whichmay grow in the immediate vicinity. Still another insect which at times does considerabledamage to cotton bolls, particularly those which are faradvanced or have oi)ened, is the red bug o
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 . is mainlycaused by the ininctnres of a leaf hopper. This insectis most abnndant from the first of Jnne on through theseason. Prior to the first of June it seems to prefer theyoung growth and foliage of i)0]3lars and other trees whichmay grow in the immediate vicinity. Still another insect which at times does considerabledamage to cotton bolls, particularly those which are faradvanced or have oi)ened, is the red bug or cotton insect is not known to be jn-evalent except in Floridaand Georgia and neighboring portions of South Carolinaand Alabama, The insect does its damage by ])uncturingthe bolls and sucking the sap, causing them to becomediminutive or to remain immature. Later, however, theinsect may enter open bolls, puncturing the seed and dam-aging the fiber by its yellowish excretions. Grasshoppers Grasshoppers are considered one of the most commonclass of insects which do injury to the foliage of the cottonplant. Several s])ecies of grassho]i])ers have this habit, and. THE SMALLER MEADOW GRASSHOPPER the list of cotton insects contains the names of fourteengrasshoppers which are found upon the plants. The dam-age which the grasshopper causes to the foliage of cotton issimilar to that of the bag woVm and the hickory horn devil. The Cotton Stalk-Borer Puncturing of the terminal portion of the stalk byl^lant bulk occasionally occurs, but is com])aratively is but one borer of the stalks of cotton, and that isthe long-horned beetle known as the cotton stalk-borer. Itis occasionally mistaken for a direct enemy of the plant, 16 but investigation has shown that it lays its eggs upon, andits larva bore into, only such stalks as have been damagedby some other cause, such as rust. It follows injury to theplant, therefore, rather than causes it. There is only one brood of the
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