INSECTS INJURIOUS TO COTTON. 



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thorough spraying with strong kerosene emulsion during 

 May. 



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Fig. 113. — Hoimdodisca codgulata. ((, aclull female seen from above; 

 b, same, side view. (After Howard, U. S. Dept. Agr.) 



"Cotton-stainer." 



The Red Bug or Cotton-stainer [Dysclerciis suturelhis) 

 once did considerable damage to the bolls in Florida, 

 Georgia, and neighboring parts of Alabama and South 

 Carolina, but of late years has devoted most of its atten- 

 tion to oranges. Early in the season they stunted the 

 bolls and made them abortive by sucking the vsap; but the 

 most serious damage was done later, wdien they entered 

 the open bolls, "puncturing the seed and damaging the 



