. Elementary entomology . Fig. 223. Striped cucumber-beetle Striped cucumber-beetle {Diahrotica vittatd) is about the same size, bright yellow with black stripes, and is one of the worst pests of young cucumber and melon vines. The larvae are long, slender whitish grubs which feed on the roots. The twelve-spotted Diabrotica is green with twelve black spots, with similar food habits in the adult stage, but in the South the larvae do serious injury to the roots of corn, while the larva of another pale green species,

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