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new beds. It has been recommended to pull up and burn 

 infested stalks in the fall after frost or in the spring and thus 

 destroy the over-wintering puparia. This is a laborious opera- 

 tion and, as many of the stems are broken off, enough puparia 

 will be left to reinfest the field. It has also been suggested 

 that the flies might be killed with a sweetened poison bait but 

 as this method has not been tried under field conditions its 

 value is very doubtful. 



References 



N. Y. (Geneva) Agr. Exp. Sta. Bull. 189. 1900. 



U. S. Bur. Ent. Circ. 135. 1911. 



Cornell Agr. Exp. Sta. Bull. 331, pp. 411-421. 1913. 



Other Asparagus Insects 



Corn ear- worm : 211 

 Southern corn root-worm : 222 

 Stink-bugs: 232 

 Cabbage looper : 8 

 Harlequin cabbage bug : 38 

 Yellow bear caterpillar : 357 

 Belted cucumber beetle : 115 

 Southern leaf -footed plant-bug : 121 

 Melon aphis : 135 

 Potato aphis : 150 

 Bean aphis : 76 

 Greasy cutworm : 265 

 Black army-worm : 275 

 Variegated cutworm : 276 

 Yellow-striped army-worm : 295 

 Root-knot nematode : 338 



