. Vegetable gardening. A manual on the growing of vegetables for home use and marketing . are the larvae of a snapping or clicking beetle, so calledfrom the ease with v/hich, if laid on their backs, they springinto the air with a clicking noise. The larvae are slender wire-like worms having a glassy tough skin of a yellowish or brown-ish color. The larvae stage lasts for two and possibly five years;it is therefore no small job to clear a piece of land badly in-fested with the pest. Naturally, wire worms live in grass landwhere the harm they do is not apparent, but when such land ispl
. Vegetable gardening. A manual on the growing of vegetables for home use and marketing . are the larvae of a snapping or clicking beetle, so calledfrom the ease with v/hich, if laid on their backs, they springinto the air with a clicking noise. The larvae are slender wire-like worms having a glassy tough skin of a yellowish or brown-ish color. The larvae stage lasts for two and possibly five years;it is therefore no small job to clear a piece of land badly in-fested with the pest. Naturally, wire worms live in grass landwhere the harm they do is not apparent, but when such land isplanted to corn or potatoes and the worms are thus depived oftheir natural food they may become very troublesome. Remedies.—Late fall plowing is desirable for land infestedwith wire worms since it exposes and thus kills all that areready to pupate. By clean summer fallowing the land one seasonthe worms are starved out, if no plants whatever are permittedto grow on it. Cut Worms (Agrotis sp.).—Cut worms often cause seriousinjury by eating vegetable plants. They are generally most in-. Figure 38.—Cut worm and moth. jurious while the plants are small, when they often bite offyoung cabbage, bean, corn or other plants close to or just underthe ground and thus destroy them. Their work is most percep-tible in the spring on account of the small amount of growingvegetation at that time, yet they also work in the autumn. Truecut worms are the larvae of several night flying moths whichappear late in summer. The female deposits her eggs late inthe summer. These soon hatch into worms which enter the 94 VEGETABLE GARDENING. ground and live near the surface on the tender 7. )ots of grassand other plants until the approach of cold weather. They thendescend deeper into the ground and remain torpid until spring,when they come to the surface and again commence their depre-dations. Cut worms w^hen full grown, are from one and a quarterto one and three-quarter inches long and rather large in di
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