Diseases & insects of the home garden . DISEASES AND INSECTS OF THE HOME GARDEN 15. LEAF-SPOT.—This trouble is most serious on musknielons, but it alsoattacks cucumbers, particularly in the Western States. The leaves showirregular, brown, dead spots andon musknielons they soon curl upand die (fig. 20). On cucumberleaves it causes dead areas whichsoon fall out, leaving raggedholes. Treatment.—Spray with Bor-deaux mixture as for downymildew. (See page 14.) STRIPED CUCUMBER BEETLE.—The striped cucumber beetle(fig. 21) as well as the twelve-spotted cucumber beetle (seepage 16) live throughout thee
Diseases & insects of the home garden . DISEASES AND INSECTS OF THE HOME GARDEN 15. LEAF-SPOT.—This trouble is most serious on musknielons, but it alsoattacks cucumbers, particularly in the Western States. The leaves showirregular, brown, dead spots andon musknielons they soon curl upand die (fig. 20). On cucumberleaves it causes dead areas whichsoon fall out, leaving raggedholes. Treatment.—Spray with Bor-deaux mixture as for downymildew. (See page 14.) STRIPED CUCUMBER BEETLE.—The striped cucumber beetle(fig. 21) as well as the twelve-spotted cucumber beetle (seepage 16) live throughout theeasten part of the United other States there are severalother kinds of beetles having about the same habits and which can betreated in the same way. The common form in the East is known as thestriped cucumber beetle, sometimes called the striped bug, melon bug,or cuke bug. The beetle is about yi inch long and has three blackstripes. The worm, or larva, is slender and white with brownish is done mainly by beetles which have lived through the wintereatin
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