IQO AGRICULTURE 



Insect Enemies: 



Characteristics of an insect: 

 Breathes through tubes on body 

 Has six legs 



Body is in three parts, head, thorax, and abdomen 

 Several life stages, egg, larva, pupa, imago, or egg, nymph, adult 

 Some chewing insects that feed on plants : 



Canker worm, army worm, tent caterpillar, cabbage and tobacco 

 worms, cotton boll worm, cutworm, Colorado potato beetle 

 Some chewing insects that feed in plants: 



Curculio, borers, Mexican cotton boll weevil 

 Some sucking insects : 



Aphides or plant lice, Hessian fly, chinch bug, scale 

 Means of controlling: 

 Cultural methods, 



Tillage, fertilizers, trap crops, time of planting, rotation of crops 

 Poison, 



Arsenic for chewing insects 



Contact poisons, such as lime, for sucking insects 

 Insect Friends: 



Ladybirds, ground and tiger beetles, dragon and damsel flies, 



ichneumon and tachina flies 

 Birds: 



Some useful ones: 



Swallows, cuckoos, woodpeckers, sparrows, wrens, kingbird, 



mocking bird, partridge, Baltimore oriole, bluebird 

 Some useful ones that do some harm : 



Robin, catbird, bobolink or rice bird, red-winged blackbird, crow 

 Some harmful ones : 



Sharp-shinned hawk, Cooper's hawk, goshawk, duck hawk, 



English sparrow 

 How to have bird neighbors: 

 Do not disturb their nests 

 Put nest boxes and water in convenient places 

 Feed birds when snow is on the ground 

 Plant mulberries and seed-bearing shrubs. ' 



