Insect pests of farm, garden and orchard . has l)red contempt, and to-day W(; havc^ but little fear of itsattack. HiKlorii.—As is probably known to most of the older genera-tion who watched its spread eastward, the Coloiado potato-beetle,as its name indicates, was a native of the Rocky Mountain region,and until about IS.),) was satisfied with fecMJing u])on various com-. Fic. 212.—The Colorado potato-beetle (Lcpti)int(irsin (hccmliiieata Say.): o,eg;; h, larva; c, pupa; d, beetle; e, eljtra or wing-cover of beetle; /, leg of beetle. (After Riley.) mon weeds of the same genus as the potato-p
Insect pests of farm, garden and orchard . has l)red contempt, and to-day W(; havc^ but little fear of itsattack. HiKlorii.—As is probably known to most of the older genera-tion who watched its spread eastward, the Coloiado potato-beetle,as its name indicates, was a native of the Rocky Mountain region,and until about IS.),) was satisfied with fecMJing u])on various com-. Fic. 212.—The Colorado potato-beetle (Lcpti)int(irsin (hccmliiieata Say.): o,eg;; h, larva; c, pupa; d, beetle; e, eljtra or wing-cover of beetle; /, leg of beetle. (After Riley.) mon weeds of the same genus as the potato-plant, principallySolanum datimt, and closely allied genera. But with the settle-ment of this countiv and the intioduction of the Irish potato,these bugs also began to take advantage of the fruits of civilizationand transferred their feeding-giounds fiom the roadside to thepotato-patch, and rapidly spread eastward fiom one to another,as well as being transported in the shipping of the potatoes. Thus, in 1S59 they had readied a point one hundred miles westof Omaha, Neb.; five years later they crossed th(^ Mississippi intoIllinois; and they advanced steadilj^ eastward till recorded among INSECTS INJURIOUS TV POTATOES AND TOMATOES 293 the Atlantic States in 1874. Th-ougli slow to be introduced intosome few sections of the country, it is safe to assert that this pes
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