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methods, or piles of rubbish may be left to attract them where 

 they can be burned. 



The best remedy, however, and one that should be put into 

 operation by every southern cabbage grower, is the planting of 

 an early crop of mustard, radish, rape, or kale as a lure for 

 the first appearing bugs. Overwintered bugs appear from 

 March to May. Tliey appear to prefer for the first deposition 

 of their eggs the plants that have been mentioned, though 

 cabbage may be available. On these the insects are killed by 

 kerosene or by hand, as, for example, by capture with a hand 

 net. or by burning the traps when these are of no value as 



Fig. 101.— False chinch-bug. a, Leaf showing punctures; b. last nymph stage, 

 c, adult, a. Natural size; 6, c much enlarged. (After Riley) 



food. If the first generation is generally done away with, few 

 insects fly from other quarters, and injury is largely prevented 

 for an entire season. 



The False Chinch-bug (Nysius angustatiis Uhl.). — The false 

 chinch-bug. although a general feeder, appears to be somewhat 

 more attached to turnip, cabbage and similar crops, but also 

 injuriously affects potato, beets, lettuce, the vine, apple, grass 

 and strawberry. It derives its name of false chinch-bug from 

 its being frequently mistaken for the true chinch-bug, to 

 which indeed it is related. The adult is grayish brown and 

 of the appearance shown in figure loi, c. The hemelytra or wing- 

 covers are more or less transparent. The length is about 

 one-eighth of an inch. In distribution it extends from New 



