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As this insect hibernates in rubbish on field, it is of the utmost impor 

 tance that all vines should be destroyed immediately after gather 

 ing the crop, thus killing the immature bugs which are still on 

 the vines. One should burn in the fall all rubbish likely to afford 

 winter quarters for this post. 



It is claimed that this bug will not touch cucumbers if there are 

 squashes in the neighborhood; that it prefers squashes to pump- 

 kins and pumpkins to cucumbers and melons; hence, if one wished 

 to raise cucumbers or melons, he might (if the above statements 

 are correct) plant squashes or piunpkins near them as a catch crop. 



Fig 100^,^. — Av.asa armigera, Say. .Mso called Squash Bug. 



Tliis bug", wlien niattire, cannot be killed by any insecticide 

 which will not injure the plant. See also page 125. 



A beetle, frequently, though wrongly, called "Squash Bug," 

 is rightly known as the Striped Cucumber Beetle, shown in Fig. 

 100^4. This beetle, which bites the surface of the plant, differs 

 so markedly in its feeding habits from the true Squash Bug, 

 which sucks the juices from below the surface, that it calls for 

 a different method of treatment as regards insecticides. 



Paris Green may be dusted dry on the plants, mixed with 

 slaked lime or cheap flour, about 1 part of Paris Green to 50 or 60 

 parts of flour or lime. At least one party has obtained relief by 

 dusting the pure Paris Green sparingly upon the plants, the 

 plants not having been burned thereby. Tobacco dust scattered 

 about the young plants is said to keep the beetle away for quite 

 a while. One should always burn the plants in the fall imme- 

 diately after gathering the crop, thereby killing a large number 



