. Injurious insects of the farm and garden. With a chapter on beneficial insects. Insects. 64 INJURIOUS INSECTS young borer may be discovered. Tbis Squasb-vine Borer is the larval state of an insect of the same genus as tbe borer of the Peach Tree. The perfect insect (fig. 39,) has an orange-colored body; its fore-wings are black, and the hind ones transparent, and the hind pair of legs are fringed with long orange and black hairs. The female deposits her eggs upon the vine near the root, at any time from June to August. The young larva at once pene- trates to the interior of the stem, and eat
. Injurious insects of the farm and garden. With a chapter on beneficial insects. Insects. 64 INJURIOUS INSECTS young borer may be discovered. Tbis Squasb-vine Borer is the larval state of an insect of the same genus as tbe borer of the Peach Tree. The perfect insect (fig. 39,) has an orange-colored body; its fore-wings are black, and the hind ones transparent, and the hind pair of legs are fringed with long orange and black hairs. The female deposits her eggs upon the vine near the root, at any time from June to August. The young larva at once pene- trates to the interior of the stem, and eats and grows, until tbe connection between the up- per part and the root being destroyed, the vine dies. The Fig.'sg.—MOTH OP SQUASH- f ull-gTown larva enters the TIKE EOKER. carth, forms a rude cocoon by gluing particles of earth together, and remains in the pupa state until time to begin its work of mischief the next season. Eemedies.—The difficulty with the Squash-vine Borer consists in the fact that its presence is not made known by the wilting of the vines until the mischief has been done. Among other methods that have been suggested, is the placing sheets of the sticky fly-paper ("Catch'em Alive, Oh!") about the vines, to capture the parent in- sect. If these are seen flitting around the vines, they should be caught by means of a net. If the moths have been seen around the vines, these should be closely ex- amined for eggs and for the wounds made by the young larvae in entering the stem; if found, while still youno-, they may be carefully cut out, without material injury to the vine. If the vine dies from the presence of bor- ers, search should be made for the larva, that it may be destroyed,, and prevent an increase. Among preventives it has been suggested that, as the insect deposits her egg upon the stem near the root of the vine, the covering. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for re
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