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Green Leaf-hopper; Currant Leaf-hopper (Empoa albopicta, 

 Forbes). Description. These insects are true bugs. They 

 are rather slender, and about an eighth of an inch in length. 

 The color is light green, almost white. The insects suck the 

 juices from the under side of the foliage, and this causes the 

 formation on the upper surface of white areas which invariably 



FIG. 56. Currant foliage injured by the four-lined leaf-bug. 



indicate the presence of the pest. Currants and gooseberries 

 suffer most severely from the first brood, during May and June. 

 Treatment. Insecticides which kill by contact must be used. 

 Kerosene emulsion, if directed towards the under surface of the 

 leaves, will destroy great numbers. Pyrethrum may be used 

 successfully, if the plants are first thoroughly wet, and the 

 powder then freely dusted upon the foliage, from beneath 



