VEGETABLE INSECTS. 



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page 281) ; Ccroplastrs floridensis, occasionally attacks celery; Saissetia 

 hemisplmricM, (see Eggplant, page 296) ; nematodes, one of the 

 worst enemies of celery (see General Feeders, page 274). 



CHAED. 

 Xylomeges sunia. 

 The caterpillar of tliis moth is extremely destructive to a great 



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Fig. 41. — Mealy Bug (F.sni/lnrnmi.^ citri) on roots of celerj-. 



many vegetable crops, ])ut is particularly abundant on cliard. 



The small, green, dome shaped eggs are laid in clusters of two 

 or three hundred on the leaves, and are covered with a ligbt white 



