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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 
SEPTEMBER, 1906 
Four Insect Pests that are Easily 
Killed Now 
Big the winter homes is a 
most important detail in the control of 
our worst insect pests, many of which are 
easily attacked then, whereas in the active 
season they are hard to reach. 
All insects pass through three or four 
stages in their development from the egg to 
maturity, and different insects pass the winter 
in different stages of existence: the grass- 
hopper in the egg, the cutworm as a larva, 
the corn ear-worm as a pupa, and the white 
grub as a partly hardened May beetle. 
Late fall spading or plowing is the best 
method of controlling all these, though it 
may not be advisable for other reasons, 
yet where these four pests are very trouble- 
some, it will usually be found the best method 
of exterminating them. 
GRASSHOPPERS AND CUT-WORMS 
The eggs of the grasshoppers are laid 
just under the surface of the soil, and get 
so deeply buried that they either fail to 
hatch, or the young are unable to emerge 
the next spring. 
In the fall the cutworms enter the soil 
to the depth of three or four inches, where 
they hollow out small oval cells, and in which 
they remain until the next spring. By 
breaking up these cells and throwing out 
the worms to the influence of the changeable 
weather conditions after they have com- 
menced hibernating, many of them are 
destroyed. 
In the same way the corn ear-worms, which 
are such nuisances upon the tips of the ears 
of sugar corn, enter the soil in the fall, and 
form cells similar to those of the cutworms, 
in which they transform to the pupal stage. 
The pupe are easily killed by exposure to 
the weather, which is brought about by 
breaking up the cells in the digging. 
WHERE THE JUNE BUG HIDES 
The white grub is a pest of almost every 
garden crop, and very difficult to handle 
when its depredations are at their worst. 
The grub requires at least two seasons to 
become full grown, when it transforms to a 
pupa, and Jater to a beetle, the well-known 
May beetle or June bug, which flies in the 
lights and buzzes around the ceilings of rooms 
during the warm evenings of May and June. 
The beetles do not emerge from the soil until 
the following spring, existing during the 
winter in the earthen cells in a_ partially 
hardened condition, and without the brown 
color which exposure to daylight soon gives 
them. In this condition they are peculiarly 
helpless, and if disturbed in late fall are 
readily killed. 
Wireworms, which are so bothersome by 
eating into seed corn, and necessitating re- 
planting, may be attacked similarly. 
3urying, as a result of fall spading, will 
destroy many other pests which pass the 
winter safely sheltered under rubbish, leaves 
stalks, and suchlike, which are to be found 
scattered over most gardens. 
New Hampshire. E. D. SANDERSON. 
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