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 OsnoKN, IIkkhkrt. — Corn Insects, their Injuries, and how to triMt them. 

 ( Hull. Iowa Agr. l>".xper. Station, No. 24, p. 997.) 

 Says clay-colored bill-bug, Sp/ifiio/i/iorus ochifits, sometimes causes consider- 

 able injury to corn. Refers briefly to this species and to S. />arTu/us, discussed in 

 previous bulletins, and mentions also A". Scit/pti7i>:, which sometimes becomes nu- 

 merous enougli to eat the whole stool to the root. Refers to suggestion that sand 

 saturated with kerosene be placed around each hill. Regards it as of doubtful 

 value. Advises killing corn with kerosene if necessary to destroy the beetles, re- 

 pLiuting afterwards, thus arresting their increase. 



1805. 

 Wf.ko, IIowaku I'.VAKTS.— Insects Injurious to Corn. ( Hull. Miss. ,'\gr. l^xjier. 

 Station, Nov. 1895, No. 35, \k 151. ) 

 Hrief note on corn bill-bugs, with copied figures. Reconnnends hand-pick- 

 ing when beetles occur in small numbers, and spraying with Paris green when on 

 the base of the stalk if they are numerous. Says second planting of corn will be 

 but little if at all attacked, and that when sod has been broken up in fall the 

 beetles will do but litlle li.un.ige tlu' follmving spring. 



1898 

 lloi'KiNS, A. D.-.Some Notes on Observations in West \'irginia. ( Hull. 17, II. S. 

 Div. Ent., ]). 45. ) 

 Refers to S/>/it-no/>/i(>n/s s<i//f>fi7is as the timothy bill-bug, and ascribes to it 

 considerable injury to timothy jWants during past three or four years. Thinks it 

 is one of the ]H-ime causes of early failure of meadows. Believes permanent in- 

 jury can be l.ngily previ'uted by lilur.il api)lications of stable manure, tobacco 

 dust, lime, or other suitable fertilizer to the sod immediately after hay harvest. 

 Larv;o of this s]iecies occur in June to September, and the pupie and adults in 

 August to October. 



1899. 



l'.'\KK(vr, 1'kkcv I. — Hill-bugs on Corn. (Kansas Farmer, May 1 1, 1899, p. 314. ) 

 Reports S/>//t/io/>//ortfs />rr////<tA ns injurious to corn in Nebraska. Experi- 

 ments show that it thrives equally well in blue-grass sod. Injured corn often 

 fails to produce ears. Experiments with kerosene are mainly unsuccessful. Ad- 

 vises destruction of infested canes if larv;o are found in the field, rooting up 

 and burning over corn stubble in fall to destroy pupa?, and cultivation of swamp 

 tracts to destroy beetles. Iseports deposit of eggs June 14 to 26 in the bur- 

 rows of beetles about one inch below the surface of the ground and touching 

 the corn. Eggs hatching luly iS; beetles still at work July 27. When not eating, 

 the beetles were to be found in burrows underground, either at the base of the 

 corn or elsewhere. 



LuGGi'K, Otto. lUetles ( (VAc/Av^r ) Injurious to our I'ruit-proilucing IMants. 

 ( Hull. Univ. Minn. .\gr. I'.xper. Station, Dec. 1899, No. 66, pp. 269 and 301. ) 

 Incidental mention of A". /<i'/i-7/'///.\- as very numerous in the roots of grasses 

 several years previous in Druid Hill Park, Baltimore, Md. Expelled from sod by 

 ap|>lication of malodorous manure followed by heavy rain. "The next day im- 

 mense numbers of beetles (A", f^arviilus, Gyll.) could be seen upon all the side- 

 walks and seats on and about the lawn; they were evidently driven out of the 

 ground by this offensive manure." (.Quotes Professor Smith concerning injury to 

 corn by bill-bugs. Corn so injured called " Krenchy " in eastern Maryland and in 

 \'irginia. 



