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 . -orado and Utah. For remedies and other facts see page The Harlequin Cabbage-Bug, Murf/antia histrionica (Hahu).—Destroying, in theSouthern States, by its punctures, cabbages, turnips, radishes, mustard, and other cru-ciferous plants; a bright black and orange-colored bug. This pretty bug has been found to be very destructive in Texas by 756 REPORT UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. Dr. G. Liucecum, who has given in the Practical Entomologist (vol.
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 . -orado and Utah. For remedies and other facts see page The Harlequin Cabbage-Bug, Murf/antia histrionica (Hahu).—Destroying, in theSouthern States, by its punctures, cabbages, turnips, radishes, mustard, and other cru-ciferous plants; a bright black and orange-colored bug. This pretty bug has been found to be very destructive in Texas by 756 REPORT UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. Dr. G. Liucecum, who has given in the Practical Entomologist (vol. i^ p. 110) the following account of itshabits: The year before last they got intomy garden and utterly destroyedmy cabbage, radishes, mustard, seed-turnips, and every other cruciformplant. Last year I did not set any ofthat order of plants in my the present year, thinking thatthe bugs had probably left the prem-ises, I planted my garden with rad-ishes, mustard, and a variety of cab-bages. By the 1st of April the mus-After tard and radishes were large enoughfor use, and I discovered that the in-1 began picking them off by hand and. Fig. 27.—Harlequinlarva; h, pit pa ; and magnified:Riley. sect had commenced on them Cabbage-Bug. a,d, e, eggs, naturalg, h, adult. tramping them under foot. By that means I have preserved my fourhundred and thirty-four cabbages, but I have visited every one ofthem daily now for four months, finding on them from thirty-four tosixty full-grown insects every day, some coupled, and some in the actof depositing their eggs. Although many have been hatched in mygarden the present season, I have suffered none to couie to maturity,and the daily supplies of grown insects that I have been blessed withare immigrants from some other garden. The perfect insect lives through the winter, and is ready to depositits eggs as early as the 13th of March, or sooner, if it finds any cruci-form plant large enough. They set their eggs on end in two row
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