Report on the Rocky Mountain locust and other insects now injuring or likely to injure field and garden crops in the western states and territories . have been thus injuredin Kentucky, but it is most destructive in Southern Illinois, where thereare two broods of the worm, the early and late corn faring the worst. INJURING THE ROOTS AND LEAVES OF GRASS. Besides most of the insects previously mentioned, which injure tbo roots and stalks of cereals, thegrass on lawns is often kdledin patches by the white grub orlarva of the June beetle {Lach-nosterna fusca, Fig. 10). Soeffectually are the roots e
Report on the Rocky Mountain locust and other insects now injuring or likely to injure field and garden crops in the western states and territories . have been thus injuredin Kentucky, but it is most destructive in Southern Illinois, where thereare two broods of the worm, the early and late corn faring the worst. INJURING THE ROOTS AND LEAVES OF GRASS. Besides most of the insects previously mentioned, which injure tbo roots and stalks of cereals, thegrass on lawns is often kdledin patches by the white grub orlarva of the June beetle {Lach-nosterna fusca, Fig. 10). Soeffectually are the roots eatenthat the sod can be rolled uplike a carpet. The white grubis injurious on lawns in Illinois,as well as in the New EnglandStates, Wire-worms, the larvaof the various species of Ne-onympha, cut-worms, the larvteof crane-flies (Tipula),fiud of thesalt-marsh caterpillars (Leu-carctia acrcva), and very hom-opterous insects, such as theFig. 10.—June beetle, Irtc/inosto-na/i(sca. I, larva; spittle insects, especially PtiJ-2, pupa; 3, 4, adult. chd lineatiis, (Fig. 11), are de- pendent for their livelihood on grasses. TTie latter is a very abun-. THE COLORADO POTATO-BEETLE. 721
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