. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 2G THE AGKICULTURAL NEWS. Jaxvakv 15, 191(j. '61 INSECT NOTES. being scattered lightly on the ground where the beetles are at work among the plants. This remedy vvofild .seem to be worlh trial in conjunction with clean culture,' lor the Myochrous beetles and for the bronze beetle (Colaspis lastidiosa) in St. Vincent, and it might be etfective also in the case of the weevils of the genus Lachnopus. which have attacked cotton seedlings in Anguiila and Antigua. THE CORN LEAF BEETLE. In the report of the liarbad
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 2G THE AGKICULTURAL NEWS. Jaxvakv 15, 191(j. '61 INSECT NOTES. being scattered lightly on the ground where the beetles are at work among the plants. This remedy vvofild .seem to be worlh trial in conjunction with clean culture,' lor the Myochrous beetles and for the bronze beetle (Colaspis lastidiosa) in St. Vincent, and it might be etfective also in the case of the weevils of the genus Lachnopus. which have attacked cotton seedlings in Anguiila and Antigua. THE CORN LEAF BEETLE. In the report of the liarbadus Department of Agriculture for , an account was given Of the Corn leaf weevil (Myochrow; at iiiatus) as a minor pest of sugarcane and Indian corn in that i-sland. This insect has been known in Barbados fnr .-evcral years, but has never become a serious pest. A related in»ect is reported as being a serious pest of Indian corn in certain sectifins of the United States. It is called the Southern C<<rn leaf beetle (Myochrmis rienticollif). This latter insect is recorded as occurring in Grenada, although so far it has not been reported as a pest. A related insect in St. Vincent is Colaspis faslidipsa, which has been at times very troublesome, from its habit of attacking very young cotton seedlings. These insects are not weevils; they belong to the Chrysomelidae, the leaf beetles, so called because the adidts, and, in many instances, the grubs also, feed on the leaves of plants. The adult beetle (Mi/ochro'is (irmatus) in Barbados is known to attack the leaves of sugar-cane plants: they probably eat the roots of these and those of the Indian corn as well. The )Soutbern Corn leaf beetle {Mpochrous deniicoUis) in the United States the roots of Indian corn and of several other plants when in the larval stage, while the adults eat the leaves of the corn plants, often causing the loss of practically all the plants over considerable areas. These attacks usually occ
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