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:XSECTS INJl'RIOUS TO VEGETABLES 



[Proconia] iinJata Fab.). The foliage at times shows holes 

 where such general feeders as the twelve-spotted cucumber 

 beetle have attacked it, apparently in wantonness, while the 

 plants were still young. 



SALSIFY 



The insect enemies of salsify, or vegetable oyster, were un- 

 der observation by Mr. F. M. Webster some years ago.^ He 

 records the occurrence of two common species of leaf-rollers 

 and three aphides on the plant, the yellow bear, or caterpillar 

 of the ermine moth, and the tarnished plant-bug. There are 

 other species which attack it. all general feeders, but there ap- 

 pear to be few, if any, records of injurious occurrences, 



PEPPER 



Peppers were grown in the United States until 1904 without 

 serious attack by insects being re- 

 corded. That year a little pest known 

 as the pepper weevil (Antlionomus 

 eugenii Cano) attracted attention 

 by its injuries to peppers of all vari- 

 eties at Boerne, Texas. This species 

 (fig. 163) is a relative of the notorious 

 Mexican cotton-boll weevil and has 

 the same origin and a similar life his- 

 tory. It is a native of Mexico from 

 which country it has been introduced 

 into Texas. 



Remedies. — Gathering and destroying the fallen pepper pods 

 in which the larva feeds and the beetle develops or burying 

 the infested pods by bedding high and lowering the soil are 

 suggested as methods of control. Where pepper is grown in 

 irrigated land this practice serves to check the insects, as the 



Fig. 163. — Pepper weevil. 

 Greatly magnified. (Hun- 

 ter & Hinds, U. S. Dept. 

 Agr.) 



1 See list, Insect Life, Vol. II., page 259. 



