Insects and insecticidesA practical manual concerning noxious insects and the methods of preventing their injuries . pupa; e,beetle. Magnified. 240 INSECTS AFFECTING CLOVER. elongate beetle, about one-fourth of an inch long,with the thorax yellowish red, and the wing-coversshining bluish-black. The larva, represented at a,is a slender, cylindrical creature, with three pairs ofjointed legs on its under surface near the head, anda pair of pro-legs at the posterior extremity. Thepupa is well shown at b of the same figure. It isusually of a yellowish color. The eggs of this insect are evidently de
Insects and insecticidesA practical manual concerning noxious insects and the methods of preventing their injuries . pupa; e,beetle. Magnified. 240 INSECTS AFFECTING CLOVER. elongate beetle, about one-fourth of an inch long,with the thorax yellowish red, and the wing-coversshining bluish-black. The larva, represented at a,is a slender, cylindrical creature, with three pairs ofjointed legs on its under surface near the head, anda pair of pro-legs at the posterior extremity. Thepupa is well shown at b of the same figure. It isusually of a yellowish color. The eggs of this insect are evidently deposited ina great variety of plants, in the stems of which thelarvae develop, feeding upon the pith of the long as there is a plentiful supply of wild plants,it is doubtful if it becomes of economic importance. INJURING THE HAY. The Clover Hay-worm. Asopia hay that has been standing in the mow orstack for sometime,is often infested bynumerous smallbrown wormswhich web thedried stems andleaves together andfeed upon is the insectnamed above, andits various stagesare represented,. Fig. 130. Clover Hay-worm : 1, 2, larva; 3, co-coon ; 4, pupa; 5, 6, moth. INJURING THE HAY. 241 natural size, at Fig. 130. The adult is a very prettylittle purple and golden moth (5, 6) which depositseggs upon such clover hay as it has access to. Theeggs soon hatch into small brown worms that becomefull-grown (1, 2) in a few weeks. They then spinsilken cocoons (3) within which they change tochrysalis (4), to emerge soon after as adult are two or more broods each season. Remedies.—It will readily be seen that these in-sects are more likely to prove troublesome when oldhay is left over from season to season for them tobreed in. Consequently ha}r mows should be thor-oughly cleaned out each summer, and new stacksshould not be put on old foundations until all of theleavings of the previous season are removed. Haywhich is thickly infested by the worms should be
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