. Insects affecting vegetables [microform]. Légumes; Vegetables; Insect pests; Insectes nuisibles. tl meot and the rot which niaiUy leti in; iweet corn ii eipecially liable to be opoilt bj thii attack. Any ear that ia aeen to be affected ihould be opened and the cater pillar destroyed; this seems to bo the only thing that can be done. The moth if ?. handsome creatine, ciehre yellow in color, with l)ands acroH* the wing*, whieh measure an inch and a half when expanded. With us there is hut one brood in the year, and much may be done to keep the insect in check by clean cultivation in th
. Insects affecting vegetables [microform]. Légumes; Vegetables; Insect pests; Insectes nuisibles. tl meot and the rot which niaiUy leti in; iweet corn ii eipecially liable to be opoilt bj thii attack. Any ear that ia aeen to be affected ihould be opened and the cater pillar destroyed; this seems to bo the only thing that can be done. The moth if ?. handsome creatine, ciehre yellow in color, with l)ands acroH* the wing*, whieh measure an inch and a half when expanded. With us there is hut one brood in the year, and much may be done to keep the insect in check by clean cultivation in the fall of the year. In the great corn-growing States to the west and loutl the crop is Ttry ser- iously injured year after year l)y the CinNcii-Bio (Fi^. ;n), a fuiiill black 'mg, with a white mark on each side of the wings. As it appears in millions, these hosts inflict nn enormous amount of damage by sucking out the juices of the plant. We arc fortunately free from HiIm pc«t in Canada, thougii occasio;ially a colony has been found in Ontario. CUCUMBER. MELON AND SQUASH. Cucumber Beetles. The Striped (Diabrotica iiltata)—{F\g. 38)— and the Spotted {!>. 12-punclata)—(Fig. .IS). The former of these insects may be found all through the season on cucumbers, melons, squm-hes and pumpkins from. Fig. 82.—Striped Cucumber-beetle, grub and pupa, much enlarged. Fig. 33 Spot- ted Cucum- b e r beetle, somewhat snlarged. the time that the plants are first set out till the frost destroys the foliage in the autumn. The beetles hibernate in the adult stage and are ready to attack the seedling plants as soon as they appear above tlie soil; oftentimes they are sufficiently numerous to kill the tender plant by eating the leaves and gnawing the atem; later on they may be found in the flowers, where, however, they seem to feed on the nectar and not to do much harm. The beetle is less than half an inch in length, oval in shape, yellow in color, with a black head and three black stripes
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