Insect pests of farm, garden and orchard . not l)een ol)served, l)ut the young maggots are foundmining just beneath the surface of the stalks, especially youngstalks. The nuiggots are about one-fifth an inch long, purewhite, except the black rasping hooks which j^roject from the full grown the maggots change to puparia beneath the epi-dermis. The next brood of adult flies emerge early in second brood of maggots seems to occur and the puparia of thesecond brood pass the winter, and from tliem come the flies earlythe next sunmier. * Agromyza simplex Loew. Family Agromyzidce. S
Insect pests of farm, garden and orchard . not l)een ol)served, l)ut the young maggots are foundmining just beneath the surface of the stalks, especially youngstalks. The nuiggots are about one-fifth an inch long, purewhite, except the black rasping hooks which j^roject from the full grown the maggots change to puparia beneath the epi-dermis. The next brood of adult flies emerge early in second brood of maggots seems to occur and the puparia of thesecond brood pass the winter, and from tliem come the flies earlythe next sunmier. * Agromyza simplex Loew. Family Agromyzidce. See Sirrine, Bulletin189, N. Y. Agr. I<:xp. Sta.; Chittenden, Bulletin 66, Part I, Bureau of Ento-mology, pp. 1 and 5, Fig. 2. MISCELLANEOUS GARDEN INSECTS 429 Injury from the mining of the maggots has been most seriouson seedling and newly set b(^ds, though it may occur on cuttingbeds, being apparent by the plants turning yellow and dying muchearlier than they naturally do. Pullinii; the old stalks and burning thom in late summer seems.
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