Insects injurious to fruits . also devoured by the larva of the twice-stabbed same artificial remedies should be used in this instanceas are recommended in the other. No. 18 —The Buffalo Tree-hopper. & Ceresa huhalus (Fabr.). This insect belongs to the order Heniiptera. It is an activejumping creature, about one-third of an inch long (Fig. 36),of a light grass-green color, with whitish dots and a pale- 46 INSECTS INJURIOUS TO THE APPLE. FiQ yellowish streak along each side. On the front there is asharp process or point jutting out horizontally on eachside, reminding one of t
Insects injurious to fruits . also devoured by the larva of the twice-stabbed same artificial remedies should be used in this instanceas are recommended in the other. No. 18 —The Buffalo Tree-hopper. & Ceresa huhalus (Fabr.). This insect belongs to the order Heniiptera. It is an activejumping creature, about one-third of an inch long (Fig. 36),of a light grass-green color, with whitish dots and a pale- 46 INSECTS INJURIOUS TO THE APPLE. FiQ yellowish streak along each side. On the front there is asharp process or point jutting out horizontally on eachside, reminding one of the horns of a bullor buffalo, which has given to the insect itscommon name of buffalo tree-hopper. Itsbody is three-sided, not unlike a beech-nutin form, and it is furnished with a sharp-pointed beak, with which it punctures thebark and sucks the sap from the trees. It is common on apple and many othertrees from July until the end of the eggs are said to be laid in a single rowof slits in the bark, and when hatched the young larvae, whichare grass-green like their parents, feed also on the sap of theleaves and twigs. In the larval state, before the power of fliglit is acquired,the insect is easily caught and destroyed; but it is not easyto suggest a remedy for so active a creature as the perfectinsect is. It cannot be killed by any poisonous application,as it feeds only on sap. It has been suggested that wherethey are so numerous as to inju
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