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CHAPTER X. 



INSECTS. 



The purpose of this chapter is to describe 

 briefly some of the more injurious insects affect- 

 ing the corn plant or its seed and to suggest 

 remedies with which to suppress them. The 

 descriptions and remedies are those given by 

 economic entomologists of high standing, and 

 more especially by Prof. F. M. Webster, ento- 

 mologist of the Ohio experiment station; Dr. J. 

 A. Lintner, New York State entomologist, and 

 Prof. S. A. Forbes, Illinois State entomologist. 

 From a valuable paper by Webster on "Insects 

 Affecting the Corn Crop" * numerous important 

 descriptive abstracts were made. The State 

 reports of Forbes and Lintner were also freely 

 used. 



, Injuring seed after planting. — The seed corn 

 fly {Phorhia fusiceps, Zetty). This is a yellow- 

 ish-white, footless maggot, about one-fourth 

 inch long, blunt at posterior and pointed at 

 anterior end. It feeds on the substance of the 



* Report Indiana State Board of Agriculture, 1885, pp. 

 180-215. 



