The Leaf-Bug 



Typical Life History of a Leaf-Bugf 



(Poecilocapsus lineatus Fabr.^ 



This insect, known as the four-lined leaf-bug, is found all 

 over the United States east of the Rocky Mountains, and is a 

 common garden pest, sucking the sap of gooseberry bushes, 

 currants, dahlias and many other plants. The insect passes the 

 winter in the tgg stage. The eggs are inserted in slits cut 



Fig. 193. — Halticus uhleri. (After Chittenden.) 



lengthwise into the stems of plants extending through the bark 

 and wood nearly half way to the pith. The slits may be an 

 eighth of inch in length, and into each of them is pushed from 

 two to fourteen eggs. These are crowded side by side, are 

 about 1.6 mm. long, smooth, cylindrical, slightly curved, light- 

 yellow in color, and with the outer third capped with a white 

 striate portion. From these eggs the young hatch in the spring 

 — the latter part of May in central New York — and feed upon the 



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