Entomology for beginners; for the use of young folks, fruitgrowers, farmers, and gardeners; . INSECTS INJURIOUS TO AGRICULTURE. 207 eaten peas may be detected by placing the whole lot in water,when the infested ones will float on the surface. The weevils in peasmay be killed by submitting the infested peas to the fumes of bisul-phide of carbon in a closed vessel. The Bean-weevil (BruchusfdbcB Riley).—This is a smallerweevil than that of the pea, and injures beans in the samemanner, except that the beans are tenanted by severalweevils; it is, however, a more formidable pest than that ofthe pea.
Entomology for beginners; for the use of young folks, fruitgrowers, farmers, and gardeners; . INSECTS INJURIOUS TO AGRICULTURE. 207 eaten peas may be detected by placing the whole lot in water,when the infested ones will float on the surface. The weevils in peasmay be killed by submitting the infested peas to the fumes of bisul-phide of carbon in a closed vessel. The Bean-weevil (BruchusfdbcB Riley).—This is a smallerweevil than that of the pea, and injures beans in the samemanner, except that the beans are tenanted by severalweevils; it is, however, a more formidable pest than that ofthe pea. The Squash-borer (Melittia cucurbit ce Harris).—Squash-vines are often killed by a borer in the stalk, a short, thickcaterpillar, whitish, with a dark head and horny patch justbehind it. It changes to abeautiful, narrow-wingedorange-colored moth spot-ted with black. The borerlives in the vine until theend of September, and pu-pates either in the vine or ill the ground ; hence if FlG (a) and moth all the vines are collected and burned in the autumn, there will be les
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