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The most common of these is Nezara hilaris Say, shown in figure 24. 

 It is bright green in color, and is undoubtedly a decidedly injurious 

 insect, as it has been known to attack orange trees in Florida and 

 strawberries and 



crops 



f/ 



other garden 

 elsewhere. 



The leaf-footed 

 plant-bugs {Lepto- 

 glossus phyllopus 

 Linn, and L. opj^osl- 

 tus Sa}^) (figs. 25 and 

 26) injure the bolls 

 in the same manner. 

 These insects are also 

 serious enemies of 

 peaches and toma- 

 toes in Texas. They 

 breed commonly on thistles and should be destroyed wherever found. 



Two other bugs somewhat resembling the so-called "cotton stainer," 

 though of a slaty or bluish color, margined with yellow or red, Largus 



Fig. 1\.'— 'Nezara hilaris: a, mature bug; 6, beak of same; r, egg mass; 

 d, single egg; e, young nymph;/, last stage of nymph— all enlarged; 

 6, d, more enlarged (from Chittenden, unpublished). 



Fig. 2.1. — Leptoglossiis phyllopus, twice nat- 

 ural size (after Hubbard). 



Fig. 26. — Leptoglossus oppositus — twice 

 natural size (from Chittenden.) 



succinctus Linn, and Jadera hsematoloma H.-Schf., are frequently 

 found in considerable numbers on the bolls and do some damage. 

 The 3^oung nymphs feed upon low-growing weeds and have not been 

 observed on cotton. There is no evidence of anj^ injury in Texas by 

 the so-called "cotton stainer" {Dysdercus suturelliis H.-8chf.). 



Click-beetle. — A small species of click-beetle {Monocrepidius vesper- 

 tinus Fab.), shown in figure 27, is frequently found on cotton blossoms 



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