. Injurious insects : how to recognize and control them . Insect pests; Insect pests. 190 FESTS OF GARDEX AXB FIELD CROPS be destroyed. The worms may be killed in their mines by pressing the upper and lower leaf surfaces together. The Squash-bug {Anasa tristis DeG.) Few pests of the garden are more widely or more unfavorably known than the common squash-bug. As soon as squashes, cucumbers, or melons have made their first leaves, the over-nintering adults appear and begin sucking the plant juices, causing the leaves to curl up. turn. 237. -The Squa=h-bue. t-ggs. n^'mphs. and adult. Original. br
. Injurious insects : how to recognize and control them . Insect pests; Insect pests. 190 FESTS OF GARDEX AXB FIELD CROPS be destroyed. The worms may be killed in their mines by pressing the upper and lower leaf surfaces together. The Squash-bug {Anasa tristis DeG.) Few pests of the garden are more widely or more unfavorably known than the common squash-bug. As soon as squashes, cucumbers, or melons have made their first leaves, the over-nintering adults appear and begin sucking the plant juices, causing the leaves to curl up. turn. 237. -The Squa=h-bue. t-ggs. n^'mphs. and adult. Original. brown, and die. Before long one wiU find the first batches of eggs, and after a few days the young bugs begin to appear, to add to the damage. Usually through summer aU three stages, egg. young, and adult, are to be found on the -i-ines at the same time. The adult is rusty brown to black, five eighths of an inch long, and provided -n-ith a strong sucking beak. Its head is small in proportion to the size of its body. The yoims. or n\Tnphs, are grayish to black. They tend to cluster in colo- nies, hiding in a curled-iip, dead leaf when not at work. The eggs. 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 O'Kane, Walter Collins, b. 1877. New York : The Macmillan Company
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