Some Insects Insur1ous To VEGETABLES 1845 
They may be quite effectually destroyed with a poison bait 
made of 10 pounds of bran and 1 pound of white arsenic or paris 
green moistened with just enough water to hold the materials 
together, after which a quart or two of cheap molasses should be 
added to sweeten the mixture. A handful of this bait should 
be placed near each cabbage plant in the evening so that the 
cutworms will be attracted to it during the night after they 
emerge from their hiding places. 
SQUASH BUG 
The squash bug (Anasa tristis) is blackish-brown in color on top 
and specked with yellow underneath. It is from one-half to nearly 
three-fourths of an inch long 
and has two long antennz on the 
head (Fig. 400-a). On the un- 
derside of the head is a long 
slender beak which constitutes 
the mouth parts, and with 
which it sucks up the juices of 
the plants on which it feeds. 
The full-grown bugs hide 
away in the fall beneath stones, 
boards, leaves and other rub- — Fic. 400— Tue Squasn Bue: (a) 
bish that they may find. In oes tay eee 
spring they come from their hiding places and begin their search 
for squash vines. When they find the plants they soon commence 
2 to lay their brown eggs on the under- 
sides of the leaves, and sometimes on the 
upper sides also. Occasionally the eggs 
are laid in regular rows, as shown in 
the illustration (Fig. 401). In eight to 
twelve days small green and black bugs 
hatch from the eggs. These young bugs 
are somewhat like the full-grown ones, 
Ye but they have no wings and are lighter 
a ia green in color (Fig. 400-n). They are 
ie called nymphs and each one has a beak 
eis a ge a with which it punctures the leaf and 
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