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face and expose them to fowls and cold weather. Hand- 

 picking in the evening and early morning when the beetle 

 makes its appearance on the trees. A vessel containing 

 kerosene is held under the limbs and the beetles are 

 shaken into it. 



Leaf-Footed Plant Louse (Leptoglossus phyllopus, 

 Linn.). — This has become a very common insect in the 

 South, and it commits its damage by sucking the juices 

 from plants and fruits. It is well recognized by the 

 chocolate color of the 

 body and leaf-like form 

 of the shanks. The 

 eggs are deposited 

 along the ribs of the 

 leaves. It is found in 

 most portions of the 

 (Julf region. 



Plants In fund. — Cu- 

 curbits, sweet pota- 

 toes, watermelons, pe- 

 can trees, pear, peach, 

 strawberry, Irish pota- 

 toes, orange (first came into prominence in the South as 

 a pest on the orange trees*). 



Remedies. — Hand-picking is the certain remedy, but 

 many of the younger forms can be destroyed by a free 

 and frequent use of kerosene emulsion. 



Melon Louse (Aphis gossypii, Glover). — This insect is 

 called "cotton 101180," or "orange aphis." There are three 

 forms found on the plants — viz. : (1) the " nymph," or the 

 recently hatched lice, which are very small and of a 

 greenish-yellow color; (2) wingless females, yellow in 



Fig. 36 — Leptof/lossus phyllopus. Twice 

 natural size. Chittenden, Div. Ent. 

 U. S. Dept. Agri. Bulletin No. 19. 



F. H. Chittenden in Bulletin 19, n. s., U. S. Dept. Agri., Div. Ent. 



