. Elementary entomology. Entomology. Fig. 223. Striped cucumber-beetle. Striped cucumber-beetle {Diabrotica 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, known as the west- ern corn rootworm, is one of the worst pests of c
. Elementary entomology. Entomology. Fig. 223. Striped cucumber-beetle. Striped cucumber-beetle {Diabrotica 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, known as the west- ern corn rootworm, is one of the worst pests of corn in the northern Miss- issippi Valley. A large group of small species, with strong hind legs which en- able them to give 1 11 â Fig. 224. A, potato flea-beetle; 7>, egg-plant flea-beetle remarkable lumps, /« *u ^i i jv J ^ ' I Both p^reatlv enlarp-edl are known as flea- beetles. The potato flea-beetle (Epitn'x fnscnla) and nearly related species are com- monly abundant on young potato and tomato plants, and on egg- plants, the leaves of which are riddled as if they had been hit with fine bird shot. The larvae are small, slender white grubs, which feed on the roots of various weeds of the same botanical family, and are rarely seen. All the garden \ V^i^^ \S^H^i crops, as well as tobacco and corn, J ^^Jw \^^^i 1 are attacked by one or more spe- cies of these flea-beetles. The lar- vae of a few species of this family are leaf miners, the leaves of the locust being commonly affected by large, brown, blisterlike mines due Both greatly enlarged) (After Chittenden, United States Department of Agriculture). Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Sanderson, Dwight, 1878-1944; Jackson, C. F. (Cicero Floyd), b. 1882; Metcalf Collection (North Carolina State University). NCRS. Boston, Ginn
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