. Insect pests of farm, garden and orchard . re enlarged; e, young nymph; /, last stage of nymph.(After Chittenden, U. S. Dept. Agr.) Among these are the so-called pumpkin-bugs or stink-bugs,of which a large green species f is the most commonly injurious,while the blackish, leaf-footed plant-bugs,{ which are more abun-dant on cucurbs, do similar injury. *See A. W. Morrill, Plant-bugs Injurious to Cotton of Entomology, IT. S. Dept. Agr. t Nezara hilaris Say. Family Lcptnglnssus oppositus Say. Family Coreido, Bulletin 86, INSECTS INJURIOUS TO COTTON 253 Cotton-stainer
. Insect pests of farm, garden and orchard . re enlarged; e, young nymph; /, last stage of nymph.(After Chittenden, U. S. Dept. Agr.) Among these are the so-called pumpkin-bugs or stink-bugs,of which a large green species f is the most commonly injurious,while the blackish, leaf-footed plant-bugs,{ which are more abun-dant on cucurbs, do similar injury. *See A. W. Morrill, Plant-bugs Injurious to Cotton of Entomology, IT. S. Dept. Agr. t Nezara hilaris Say. Family Lcptnglnssus oppositus Say. Family Coreido, Bulletin 86, INSECTS INJURIOUS TO COTTON 253 Cotton-stainer *The cotton stainer or rod-bug is stated by Hunter to be themost important cotton pest in Florida. It occurs in small num-bers in Georgia, South Carolina and Alabama, but do(»s practicallyno injury there. The principal damage is due to the bugs punctur-ing the bolls in feeding and staining the lint a brownish stain seems to arise from the injured seed, at least it is mostnoticeable around the seed. The cocklebur seems to be the. Fig. ISl. The rod bug or cottou-stiiincr (^Lysdacus suiureUus) , nymph; b, adult. (From Insect Life.) most important of the native food-plants, though the bugs feed on the night-shade and Hibiscus and rarely attack oranges. Prevention of the growth of these weeds is therefore of importance. As the bugs usually assemble in colonies, their red color may be easily observed and they may be jarred from the foliage into buckets containing water covered with a film of kerosene. In the fall and winter these insects assemble in numbers on piles of cotton seed, which may thus ht used as traps and the bugs killed with kerosene or hot water. * Dysdercus suturellus H. Schf. Family Pyrrhocoridae. See W. D. Hunter,Circular 149, Bureau of Entomology, U. S. Department of Agriculture. 254 INSECT PESTS OF FARM, GARDEN AND ORCHARD The Cotton Bollworm * One of the most destructive and \videspread pests of cotton isthe bollworm, the same insect as the
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