. Injurious insects and the use of insecticides [microform] : a new descriptive manual on noxious insects, with methods for their repression . yellow to a bright red, and the pupais reddish-brown and wingless. The mature insect hibernates through 172 INJURIOUS INSECTS. the winter, hidden away within the leaf sheaths of corn stalks in theshocks of corn, crevices of fences or under the shelter of all sorts ofrubbish affording protection from rain. This insect is not affectedby cold but quickly succumbs to moisture. The chinch-bug is two-brooded in the middlestates and is believed to be three-bro
. Injurious insects and the use of insecticides [microform] : a new descriptive manual on noxious insects, with methods for their repression . yellow to a bright red, and the pupais reddish-brown and wingless. The mature insect hibernates through 172 INJURIOUS INSECTS. the winter, hidden away within the leaf sheaths of corn stalks in theshocks of corn, crevices of fences or under the shelter of all sorts ofrubbish affording protection from rain. This insect is not affectedby cold but quickly succumbs to moisture. The chinch-bug is two-brooded in the middlestates and is believed to be three-brooded inthe extreme southern states. The femaledeposits her eggs near or under ground, uponthe stems and roots of wheat, corn, oats andgrasses and the young remain in or near theearth sucking the sap from the stems and —The disgusting bed-bug-likeodor of both the young and adult insect ap-pears to protect them from most insect-eatingbirds and predaceous insects. They are, how-ever, eaten to some extent by quail and possi-bly by other birds: among insects, the lady-bird beetle possibly destroys them in consider-chinch bug. Fig. 147.— able numbers. Theis subject to the attacks of bacte-rial diseases, which are the mostpotent factors in reducing theirnumbers. All rubbish accumula-tions along fences and head-laudsshould be hauled into the fieldand burned. Autumn plowingand heavy rolling the land forspring grain perceptibly decreasesthe damages of the pest. Spray-ing with kerosene emulsion killsthe bugs without injury to thecrop. This insect sometimes appearsin armies, moving in solid col-umns from field to field, devour-ing wheat, corn, or barley. Suchmigrations are stayed b}^ lajing athin layer of coal tar across thepath of the pest. Between thetar-line and the bugs deep holesare dug, into which many of the bugs will lall or may be swept ixndburied.
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