INSECTS INFESTING CORN. 



CHAP. 



The Wire Worm 193 



Cut Worms {Agrotui) 194 



The White Grub (Lachnofterna quercina). 195 



The Com Worm (Ueliothi:- ariaigera) 196 



The Corn Aphis (Aphis nuiidU) 197 



The following insects also infest Corn: 

 Crane Flies (Tipula). 

 The Stalk Borer (Gortyna nitela). 

 The Chinch Bug {Mkropua leucopteru^}. 

 The Army Worm (Leucania unipniictaj. 

 The Yellow Bear {Spilosotiia virr/inica). 

 The California Locust {(Edipoda alrox). 



CHAPTER CXCIII. 



The Wire Worm. 



Order, Coleopteka ; Family, Elateridte. 



[Feeding upon the roots of wheat, oats, corn, potatoes, and 

 many other plants ; a nearly cylindrical reddish or yellowish- 

 brown six-legged larva or worm.] 



Fig. 282. — Wire- Fig. 282. 



worms and Snap- V,...,^,.^ 



r. 



ping-beetles ; 3, Ela- a 

 ter obscurus, enlarged 

 (natural size indi- 

 cated at 4) — color, 

 black or brown ; 2, 

 E. lineatus, enlarged 

 (natural size indi- 

 cated at 1 ) — color, 

 grayish-brown, with 

 darker lines ; 5, E. 

 sputator, natural size; 



6, the same enlarged — color, blackish ; 10, the pupa of a wire- 

 worm, enlarged — color, yellowish ; 8, the larva of E. lineatus. 

 natural size; 9, the same enlarged — color, yellowish : 7, a wire- 



