. Bulletin. Insects; Insect pests; Entomology; Insects; Insect pests; Entomology. 29 The larva is subterranean in habit, but the mature larva and the pupa are unknown, as is also the larval food plant. A female beetle kept by the writer from May till July deposited eggs almost daily, 540 in num- ber, and it was not known how many eggs had been laid prior to that time. The beetle possesses the habit so common to snout-beetles of "playing 'possum" or feigning death when disturbed, dropping off its food plant on the slightest disturbance and remaining for some time before resuming activ
. Bulletin. Insects; Insect pests; Entomology; Insects; Insect pests; Entomology. 29 The larva is subterranean in habit, but the mature larva and the pupa are unknown, as is also the larval food plant. A female beetle kept by the writer from May till July deposited eggs almost daily, 540 in num- ber, and it was not known how many eggs had been laid prior to that time. The beetle possesses the habit so common to snout-beetles of "playing 'possum" or feigning death when disturbed, dropping off its food plant on the slightest disturbance and remaining for some time before resuming activit}-. ^'â A beetle parasitized b}^ a fungus {Sj^oi'otricliuin glohuliferum f) is illustrated in figure 24. The imbricated snout-beetle is one of many species of insects which are sporadic as regards injurious attack and troublesome onh' in seasons following a year which has been favorable to the increase of individuals. The beetles are not restricted to wild plants even in years of scarcity, but are found over the area which they inhabit on cultivated or other useful plants ever}^ year. Fortunatel}' the beetle is not only irregular as to destructive occurrences, but is omnivorous as well, subsisting on one plant quite as well as another, thus distributing attack. JRemedies.âThis species will yield to the same remedies in use against the Colorado potato beetle. On plants resistant to arsen- icals, such as potato, Paris green applied as a spray at the rate of a pound to K »0 gallons of water is effective, while on less resistant plants, such as peach and bean, a weaker sprayâabout 1 pound to 150 gallons of waterâor one' in which arsenate of lead is the poison, is necessary to avoid scalding the foliage. Arsenicals can also be used dry, mixed with about 10 parts of cheap flour or lime, and applied to the infested plants by means of a hand bellows. The beetles may be readily dislodged from affected plants by jarring them with a pole or stick upon ''curculio catchers" of
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