INSECTS INFESTING ASPARAGUS. 



The Aspara^'us Beetle (Crioc^rU asparagi) Cliap. 2S3 



CHAPTER CrXXXIII. 



The Asparagus Beetle. 



( (^ridcerix ((sjjaraiii. — r^innfpiis. ) 



(Order, Coleoiteea; Family, Chrysomelid^.) 



[Feeding upon the leaves of asparagus ; a robust, ash-gray 

 six-legged larva, about three lines long, -with a row of black 

 dots along each side of the liody. tlie head and two sjtots on 

 the first segment also black.] 



This beetle (Fig. 841, Plate 4,) measures about three Hues in 

 length; its thorax is reddish and usually marked with black; 

 the wing-cases arc pale-yellowish, marked with blue-black as 

 in the figure. 



The perfect beetles pass the ^\'inter in some sheltered situa- 

 tion and come forth early in the following Summer to deposit 

 their eggs. These are placed ui)on the stalks of the asparagus 

 (Fig. 342, Plate 4,) and somewhat resemljle in form a grain of 

 wheat, but are much smaller and are of a blackish-brown color. 

 After the larva- (Fig. 348, Plate 4,) attain their full size, they 

 desert the plants and enter the earth, where each one forms a 

 small cell in which to undergo its transformations. 



Remedies. — Use No. 19, or No. 83, or No. 85, or No. 3, or 

 No. ■}. 



INSECTS INFESTING RIIIDARB, OR TIE I'EANT. 



The following insects infest tiic lvliul»arli plant, and are 

 treated of in another part of this work : 



Ciif Worms (Aijrnliji). The I'mistt'ci Leaf hopper (7 'a'ciV'^j/^rcn j'ci/i «((.-■</). 



