POTATO PESTS, 



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smooth, shining, ochreous-coloured body, furnished with 

 thirty feet (Fig. 2) ; and another long and slender crea- 

 ture two to three inches long with numerous legs and 

 an ochreous- brown, tinted body, na-iied Geophilus longi- 

 cornis (Fig. 3). The latter moves with a waving motion 

 from right to left, and is very active. These two crea- 

 tures are carnivorous in habit, and do no harm to vegeta- 

 tion. The millepedes, however, are very destructive, and 

 attack the tubers with as much voracity as the wire worms. 

 REMEDIES. Badly drained, wet or weed-infested lands are 

 favourite haunts of these pests. Soil that is properly tilled, 

 kept clean, and well limed occasionally is rarely much 

 troubled with, millepedes. The remedies advised for the 

 eradication of the wircworni are equally applicable to the 

 millepedes. 



Colorado Beetle (Doryphora decemlineata). This 

 is an American pest, which has happily not established 



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COLORADO POTATO BEETLE AND ITS MIMICS. 



1 Field Chafer. 2 False Lady Bird. 3- -Spine Beetle. 4 Large Lady Bird. 

 5 Colorado Potato Beetle. 6 Brown AVoodlousc Beetle. 7 Green Rose Beetle. 

 S Wheat Beetle. 



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