Insects affecting the cotton plant . he day andskeletonizing themat remedy for any ,_ n n t n Fig. lb.—Schistocerca americana: adult female—natural size (from or all of these leaf- In8ecfc Life). feeding caterpillars, whenever one of them occasionally becomes so abundant as to threatendamage, as happened with the Arctia phyllira above mentioned, will beto spray with paris green, or dust it on dry, as for the cotton caterpillar. OTHER INSECTS WHICH DAMAGE THE LEAVES. Among the other insects which injure the foliage of the cotton plant,grasshoppers are the most prominent. Several speci
Insects affecting the cotton plant . he day andskeletonizing themat remedy for any ,_ n n t n Fig. lb.—Schistocerca americana: adult female—natural size (from or all of these leaf- In8ecfc Life). feeding caterpillars, whenever one of them occasionally becomes so abundant as to threatendamage, as happened with the Arctia phyllira above mentioned, will beto spray with paris green, or dust it on dry, as for the cotton caterpillar. OTHER INSECTS WHICH DAMAGE THE LEAVES. Among the other insects which injure the foliage of the cotton plant,grasshoppers are the most prominent. Several species have this habit,and the list of cotton insects contains the names of fourteen which arefound upon the plant. Here also the damage to cotton seems incidental ;they feed by preference upon grass. The species which ordinarilycause the greatest alarm among cotton planters are the large Americanlocust (Schistocerca americana) and the lubber grasshopper (Brachystolamagna). The paris green treatment will again be effective here, but. 28 when grasshoppers occur in considerable numbers, attracting them toa mash made of sweetened bran and arsenic will prevent leaf feedingto a great extent. Many leaf hoppers and several leaf-feeding beetles have been foundupon the cotton plant, but need not be particularly mentioned many portions of Texas the leaves are frequently cut off by theso called leaf-cutting ;mt, (Ecodoma fervens. One of the few practicalremedies against this destructive insect, which damages fruit trees andother field crops as well as cotton, consists in tracing the ants to theirnest (which is often an extremely difficult thing to do) and destroyingthem there by copious applications of kerosene or bisulphide of method, which has been, practiced with some success by anintelligent Texan, is to spread a line of cyanide of potassium across thewell-defined path by which the ants leave their nest; this kills verymany, and deters the ants from taking the d
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