The Squash-Bug and Its Allies 



and ill-smelling creature commonly noticed in vegetable gardens. 

 The adult insect hibernates, thrusting itself into some protected 

 crevice and lays its eggs in the late spring or early summer. 

 These hatch in about two weeks and the insect may become full 



Fig. 199. — Anasa armigera. 



(After Chittenden.) 



grown in less than a month. There is no evidence that there is 

 more than one generation annually from the District of Columbia 

 northward, but further south there are probably more. 



Observers need not be surprised at the failure of the eggs to 

 hatch as they are frequently parasitized by two minute egg- 

 parasites, Hadronotus anasce and Ocencyrtus anasce. 



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