. Economic entomology for the farmer and fruit-grower . Pcecilocapsus lineatus, four-lined plant-bug, natural size and enlarged : also egg mass in currant, and, at e, a single egg, greatly enlarged. or woody plants are attacked ; but on succulent annuals, collect- ing the insects in the morning, before they have become active, by shaking them into some sort of receptacle, is the most satis- factory method. In the Cotton belt there was no more troublesome insect, some years ago, than the "red-bug," or " cotton-stainer," Dysdercus suturellus, so named from the fact that its e
. Economic entomology for the farmer and fruit-grower . Pcecilocapsus lineatus, four-lined plant-bug, natural size and enlarged : also egg mass in currant, and, at e, a single egg, greatly enlarged. or woody plants are attacked ; but on succulent annuals, collect- ing the insects in the morning, before they have become active, by shaking them into some sort of receptacle, is the most satis- factory method. In the Cotton belt there was no more troublesome insect, some years ago, than the "red-bug," or " cotton-stainer," Dysdercus suturellus, so named from the fact that its excrement, voided in the opening bolls, stained the cotton red, and thus caused it to become of inferior value. Since cotton-seed has become almost as valuable as the cotton itself, and is now completely used up, it has been found that these insects have become practically harm- less. It seems that they were enabled to multiply unduly in the heaps of decaying cotton-seed, and since at present no such heaps exist they cannot increase so rapidly. They also attack oranges in Florida, and Professor Comstock recommends that they be
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