. Agriculture for beginners. h it has along beak. It belongs to a family of beetles which breedin pods, in seeds, and in stalks of plants. It feeds onlyupon the cotton plant. To understand how this beetle injures cotton and also tounderstand the methods of trying to destroy the insect, we must know the life ofthe beetle. Let us follow itthrough a year. The grownweevils try to outlive thecold of winter by hidingsnugly away under grassclumps, cotton stalks, rub-bish, or under the bark oftrees. Sometimes they godown into holes in theground. A comfortableshelter is often found inthe forests near t
. Agriculture for beginners. h it has along beak. It belongs to a family of beetles which breedin pods, in seeds, and in stalks of plants. It feeds onlyupon the cotton plant. To understand how this beetle injures cotton and also tounderstand the methods of trying to destroy the insect, we must know the life ofthe beetle. Let us follow itthrough a year. The grownweevils try to outlive thecold of winter by hidingsnugly away under grassclumps, cotton stalks, rub-bish, or under the bark oftrees. Sometimes they godown into holes in theground. A comfortableshelter is often found inthe forests near the cottonfields. The weevils canstand a good deal of cold,but fortunately thousandsand thousands are killedeach year by birds, always thefriends of the farmer, destroy many ; hence by springthe last years crop is greatly reduced in number. In the spring, generally about the time cotton begins toform squares, the surviving weevils shake off their longwinter sleep and enter the cotton fields with appetites as. Fig. 259. The Pupa of the Cotton-Boll Weevil INJURING A Square After an original furnished by UnitedStates Department of Agriculture THE COTTON-BOLL WEEVIL 301
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