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bins of grain, breeding is very rapid and great destruction is wrought 

 in a very short time. 



Distribution. — Throughout the southern part of the State. 



Food Plants. — This is primarily a grain pest, attacking the kernel 

 and comi>letely destroying the inside. Corn, wheat and barley are 

 infested. 



Control. — Crops should be harvested as soon as possible to prevent 

 infestation in the field. After they have been stored is when the 

 greatest damage may be done before the presence of the pest is known. 

 Fumigation with carbon bisulfid as soon as any adults appear is thp 

 best remedy. 



THE LIMA BEAN POD-BORER. 



Etielhi zhivl-ciicUa (Treit. ) (Family Pyralidae). 

 (Fig. 158.) 



General Appearance. — The adult moths are gray with ocherous 

 blotches on the fore wings. There is a plain, broad, white band along 



Fig. 158. — The work of the lima bean pod-borer, Etieila zinckenella (Treit.), on bush 



lima beans. (Original.) 



the margins of these wings and an ocherous band with brown spots 

 across the inner fourth. This band is especially conspicuous. The 

 hind wings are light gray. The moths are small, scarcely more than 



