. Annual report of the Regents. New York State Museum; Science. Fig. 25 Squash bug: a adult female twice natural size; b, o and d details of structure more enlarged (after Chittenden, U. S. dep't agric. div. ent. Bui. 19, new series) merited with a pair of dark spots on the anterior border near the median line. The body is a rather dark green and bears large, whitish, quite conspicuous tubercles, each with one to three hairs or setae. The anal plate is rather prominent and dark brown posteriorly. The true legs are black and the false or prolegs are a yellowish green color. Described from a num
. Annual report of the Regents. New York State Museum; Science. Fig. 25 Squash bug: a adult female twice natural size; b, o and d details of structure more enlarged (after Chittenden, U. S. dep't agric. div. ent. Bui. 19, new series) merited with a pair of dark spots on the anterior border near the median line. The body is a rather dark green and bears large, whitish, quite conspicuous tubercles, each with one to three hairs or setae. The anal plate is rather prominent and dark brown posteriorly. The true legs are black and the false or prolegs are a yellowish green color. Described from a num- ber of living specimens. The pupal shell is about J inch long, brown in color. The cremaster is black and ornamented with about eight or nine recurved hooks. Squash bug, A n a s a tristis DeG. This common and ' dis- gusting pest of the squash and other vines has been unusually troublesome and destructive the past season. A number of complaints have been received from various sections of the state. The experience of state botanist Peck may well serve as an example. After an absence of about two weeks, he took 63 adult bugs from four hills of squashes, and two hills had but a single plant each. The squash leaves were fairly covered with eggs, and others were deposited on ad- jacent raspberry and plum leaves, as well as on cucumber vines. Garden flea, Smynthurus hor- tensis Fitch. Though this insect is said to occur abundantly during May and June in gardens in New York state, it is rarely brought to the attention of economic entomologists. Its small size and quick movements have undoubtedly deterred many from trying to capture it, but this difficulty was in- geniously solved by Mr C. E. Ford, Oneonta N. Y., who. Fig. 26 Garden flea, much enlarged (after Fitch). Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original
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