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Treatment: slit the softer, infested portions, remove the borers and 
cover the wounded part with earth. Protect young plants with netting. 
43 Striped cucumber beetle (Diabrotica vittata). Yellow 
beetles about ¥/ in. long, striped with black, occur in numbers on cucum- 
ber and squash vines. 
Treatment: protect young vines with netting. Dust vines with ashes, 
plaster of paris, etc. Poison trap crop of squash. 
44 Cucumber flea beetle (Epitrix cucumeris). Brown- 
ish, gnawed spots on leaves made by numerous black jumping beetles 
about ,/, in. long. 
Treatment: spray vines with bordeaux mixture. 
4s Squash bug (Anasatristis). Wilting leaves with their 
under surface infested by greenish young or by the large, grayish brown 
stink bugs about 34 in. long. 
Treatment: place chips and similar shelters near the vines and kill 
daily the bugs collected underneath. Crush the brownish eggs on under 
surface of the leaves. 
46 Common asparagus beetle (Crioceris asparagi). 
Slate colored grubs about % in. long or yellowish and bluish green 
beetles about ¥ in. long eating the more tender portions of the plants. 
Occurs on Long Island, in Hudson river valley and in the lake regions of 
the western part of the state. 
Treatment: spray affected plants with poison. 
47 12 spotted asparagus beetle (Crioceris 12-punc- 
tata). Slate colored grubs about % in. long or stout, nearly cylindric 
red beetles with 12 black spots, eating the more tender portions of the 
plant. Known to occur in the state at Albany, Newark, Brighton, East 
Amherst, Buffalo and Crosby. 
Treatment: spray affected plants with poison. 
48 Flea beetle on sugar beets (Systena frontalis). 
Ragged holes and brown spots made by small, jumping, black, red- 
headed beetles about 3, in. long. 
Treatment: spray affected plants with poison or bordeaux mixture. 
49 Blister beetles (Epicauta cinerea, E. vittata). 
Feeding in July and August on the foliage of potato and other plants, 
cylindric, soft beetles about 5g in. long and black and gray, or black 
striped with yellow. 
