. Injurious insects of the orchard, vineyard, field, garden, conservatory, household, storehouse, domestic animals, etc., with remedies for their extermination . t? ?^ k oil TT I 1* amilv, Aphidid^. Sub-order, Homoptera \ ) • [Living on the under sides of the leaves of cucumber, squashand pumpkin ^dnes, which they puncture with their beaks andimbibe the sap ; small green plant-lice, sometimes markedwith brown.] The wingless lice are green, with a few darker winged lice are green, the head yellowish, the eyes brownand the thorax usually brownish. Remedy.—Use No. 111. CHAPTER CCV. T
. Injurious insects of the orchard, vineyard, field, garden, conservatory, household, storehouse, domestic animals, etc., with remedies for their extermination . t? ?^ k oil TT I 1* amilv, Aphidid^. Sub-order, Homoptera \ ) • [Living on the under sides of the leaves of cucumber, squashand pumpkin ^dnes, which they puncture with their beaks andimbibe the sap ; small green plant-lice, sometimes markedwith brown.] The wingless lice are green, with a few darker winged lice are green, the head yellowish, the eyes brownand the thorax usually brownish. Remedy.—Use No. 111. CHAPTER CCV. The Pickle Worm. (Cal.) (PJiacellura nitidalis.—Cramer.) Order, Lepidoptera; Family, Pyralid^. [Boring cylindrical holes into cucumbers, melons, andsquashes; a pale greenish-yellow worm, with a reddish head.] INSECTS INFESTING THE CUCUMBER. 305 Fifj. ?,01.—Pickle Wormworm — color, vellowiBh Fig. j. an infested cucumber; r/, theor green ; r,one of the middlesegments of itsbody, enlarged ; d,the horny plate onthe top of the firstsegment, called thecervical shield; e, ar-rangement of blackspots on one side ofthe first segment;f, shoAvs arrange-ment of black spotson top of the sec-ond and third seg-ments ; g, arrange-ment of black spotson top of the last segment; b, the head and fore part of thecaterpillars body, enlarged, back view; h, the cocoon—color,white; /, the male moth—color, yellowisli-brown and dullgolden yellow. When fully grown this Avorm (Fig. 301a) is about an inchlong; it then crawls beneath the leaves, etc., Avhich lie uponthe ground, and spins a slight Avhitish cocoon (Fig. 301 A).The last brood passes the Winter in the pupa state. The perfect moth (Fig. 301/) expands about one inch findthree lines. The fore-wings are of a Aellowish-brown colorwith a [)urplish reflection, and near the middle of the hindedge is an irregular semi-transparent du\l golden-yellow
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