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their rapid consumption of the wheat plants rendered it nec- 

 essary to renew the supply quite as often a3 before. They 

 were fed in this way until the month of fiq. 13. 



July. On the 2Gth of August one of 

 the grubs changed into a pupa and on 

 the 3rd of September the first beetle 

 appeared. It is a pale reddish brown 

 insect. This insect and its allies are 

 called click or snapping beetles from 

 their power of throvving themselves up 

 in the air in order to right themselves 

 whenever placed by accident on their 

 backs. 



Figure 13 represents the grub and snapping Beetle and larva. 



beetle of another wire worm which, 

 Fig. 14. according to Mr. Walsh, lived in decaying wood 

 in his breeding jar for a period of two years. 

 Figure 14 (enlarged four times) repre- fig. 15. 

 sents a small slender wire worm found 

 b}' Mr. Sanborn in the roots of the 

 squash vine. Another form (Fig. 15 

 enlarged twice) is a common wire worm 

 in the northern states. Allied to the 

 northern elaters, or snapping beetles, is 

 w: 10 Worm. *^^ Cuban fire fly (Fig. IG) which has 

 two largo luminous e^'c-like spots on 

 cacli side of the thorax, and another at the base 

 of the hind body beneath. AYe have, in New 

 England even, a phospliorescent wire worm (Fig. 

 17, Melanactes) which sends out a dull greenisli 

 light at night. 



We cannot, in speaking of remedies, do better ^ 

 than quote from Mr. Bethune's report. "Lime and ^^'''■° ^^'"T'"' 

 soot, to be applied to the soil before sowing any grain, are 

 highly recommended by some, but arc of doubtful efEcacy. 



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