THE SO-CALLED ‘‘ CURLEW BUG.’’ 65 
As will be observed, this method of hibernation is of the greatest 
importance from an economic standpoint, because hibernation in the 
lower stalk or roots would bring the inhabitants within reach by pull- 
ing up and burning these stalks during the winter or early spring. 
For data on the larger corn stalk-borer see Circular No. 116 of the 
Bureau of Entomol- 
ogy, entitled “‘ The 
Larger Corn Stalk- 
Borer.” 
The beetles prob- 
ably come forth from 
their hibernation 
quarters quite early in 
spring, as soon as the 
eround has become 
permanently warm 
from the spring tem- 
perature. Mr. Kelly 
found them under 
cornstalks of the pre- 
vious year at Whites- 
boro, Tex., April 13, 
1910. They evidently 
feed foraconsiderable 
time by puncturing 
the lower part of the 
stems of the plants. 
These punctures are 
quite different from 
the ege punctures, 
and the effect is often 
not so fatal as that oc- 
casioned by the down- 
ward burrowing of the 
larva. These punc- 

Fie. 21.—The ‘‘curlew bug:” a, Corn plant attacked by adult in- 
tures are usually made sect; b, egg as placed in stem of young corn plant, enlarged at 
left; c, pupa and adult in root of corn in chamber eaten out by 
about ora little below the larva, slightly reduced. (Original.) 
the surface of the 
ground, the beetle evidently searching for a point where the stem is 
tender and succulent. 
Tf the punctures are made lower down on the plant, just above the 
root, the result is a throwing up of a number of tillers or suckers 
from the roots, the main stem itself having a stalky appearance, with 
the result that no ears are produced. In this respect the effect pro- 
duced resembles to a degree that of an attack of the Hessian fly on a 
young wheat plant in the fall. This unusual development of tillers 
