Annual report of the Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario, 1896 . Phelps Late, Au^st, 1895. After being broucrht under cultivation. Corn and^ Pumpkins. (After Forbes.) (See page 8If.). ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO. 65 stirred to give it a decidedly green tinge. A spoonful of this mixture was placed atintervals of six or eight feet along rows of peas, beets and carrots, which were beingrapidly destroyed, by these cut-worms. The results were most satisfactory, the poisonedbran was apparently so attractive to the caterpiliars that only two or three plants wereafterwards cut off and the bran
Annual report of the Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario, 1896 . Phelps Late, Au^st, 1895. After being broucrht under cultivation. Corn and^ Pumpkins. (After Forbes.) (See page 8If.). ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO. 65 stirred to give it a decidedly green tinge. A spoonful of this mixture was placed atintervals of six or eight feet along rows of peas, beets and carrots, which were beingrapidly destroyed, by these cut-worms. The results were most satisfactory, the poisonedbran was apparently so attractive to the caterpiliars that only two or three plants wereafterwards cut off and the bran was eaten instead, many caterpillars being found dead nearthe bran but some distance under the surface of the soil, where they required to be lookedfor with some care. The *Black Army-worm {Noctuafennica^ Tausch) was abundant in the neighbor-hood of Picton, Ont, where it did much harm to peas and other garden plants, includingraspberries and other small fruit. Squashes and cucumbers have been much injured in western Ontario by the stripedcucumbar beetle {Dlabrotica vittata, Fab.), and the true squash bug (Anasa tristis, DoGeer) Fig. 67, was reported as very troublesome at Plamil
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