A Potato Beetle Chronicle 



Millie Ruth Turner 

 Wilkinsburg, Penn. 



CHAPTER I 



The Egg 

 9:30 A. M., July 8, 1921. 



Professor Detwiler gave me a potato leaf that had a patch of 

 yellow eggs on the under side. These eggs are about one-six- 

 teenth of an inch in length, and thirty or forty of them are arranged 

 on end in a compact group. Truly the potato beetle is in the 

 same class as the ''Great Discoverer" when it comes to making 

 eggs stand upright. 

 11:00 A. M. 



I carried the eggs home with great care for fear of scrambling 

 them and put them on a desk. When my landlady is at leisure I 

 am going to get a bottle from her for them. 

 12:00 A. M. 



No change in the eggs. Perhaps the sun was too warm for 

 them when I carried them from the field. 



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