320 INSECT PESTS OF FARM, GARDEN AND ORCHARD 



feed somewhat upon it and will secure enough of the surface of 

 the pods in entering to effectively poison them if the pods are well 

 coated.* 



The Seed-corn Maggot f 



This insect has been termed the Seed-corn Maggot on account 

 of its frequent injuries to early seed-corn, but in recent years it 

 has often seriously injured the seeds of beans and peas, on account 

 of which it has been termed the " bean-fly," while cabbage, 



FIG. 232. Seed-corn maggot (Pegomya fusciceps) : a, male fly, dorsal view; 

 b, female, lateral view; c, head of female from above; d, larva, from side; 

 e, anal segment of larva; /, anal spiracles; g, cephalic spiracles: h, pupa- 

 rium all much enlarged. (After Chittenden, U. S. Dept. Agr.) 



turnip, radish, onions, beets and seed potatoes are among its 

 other food-plants. 



The species is of European origin, and was first noted in this 

 country by Dr. Asa Fitch in 1856. Since then it has become 

 distributed throughout tho United States from Minnesota to 

 Texas and eastward. 



The adult flies closely resemble the root-maggots affecting 



* See " Insect Life,'' Vol. VII, p. 354. Chittenden, Bulletin 33, Div. Ent., 

 U. S. Dept. Agr., p. 101; Sanderson, Farmers' Bulletin, U. S. Dept. Agr., 

 223, p. 17, and Bulletin 57, Bureau Entomology, p. 40. 



| Pegomya fusciceps Zett. Family Anihomyidce. 



