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Four-Spotted Bean Weevil 
Bruchus quadrimaculatus 
An old enemy of cow peas. It also 
works in the common bean and, like the 
common bean weevil, it works indefinitely 
in the stored seeds until nothing of value 
is left. As this beetle is larger than the 
bean weevil, its work is comparatively 
rapid. 
Like the bean weevil, this creature 
starts work in the field, coming into the 
granary with the harvested beans, or it 
may gain access after the beans have been 
stored away. 
Remedies 
Fumigation of the seed during warm 
spells with carbon bisulphid is the best 
remedy thus far discovered. 
R. H, Perrrt, 
East Lansing, Mich. 
HARLEQUIN CABBAGE Buc. See Cabbage. 
Ladybird - 
Epilachna corrupta, Muls. 
The beetles belonging to the ladybird 
family are quite common in this section. 
They are small oval or hemispherical in 
shape and are red and brown with black 
spots or black with red or yellow spots. 
These beetles are divided roughly into 
two classes, beneficial and injurious. The 
beneficial species feed on plant lice and 
scale insects. The ladybird is trouble- 
some throughout New Mexico and occa- 
sionally it becomes very injurious, espe- 
cially to the bean crop. This beetle de- 
vours all parts of the bean plant in both 
the larval and adult stages. The yellow- 
ish brown eggs are laid in clusters on 
the under surface of the leaves. 
The larvae has a yellow color and is 
covered with ugly branched spines. The 
matured beetle is light yellowish brown 
with eight black spots on each wing 
cover. This beetle is the one locally 
known as La chinche del frijol by the 
Mexican bean growers. The insect win- 
ters over in the adult stage and so far 
as it is known there is but one brood a 
year. It seems that in New Mexico the 
wintered over beetles appear about the 
last of June to the middle of July and 
the generation from these is developed in 
August and September. 
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PRACTICAL HORTICULTURE 
Remedies 
By judiciously using Paris green and 
arsenate of lead many of the larvae and 
adults can be killed. Greater care should 
be taken when using Paris green, since 
it is liable to injure the foliage: Kero- 
sene emulsion is sometimes used with 
quite a degree of satisfaction. In small 
gardens hand picking of the first beetles 
in the summer and destroying the eggs 
may aid considerably in reducing the 
number of the late brood. Clean culture, 
as destroying all weeds and rubbish in 
the field, fall plowing, and harrowing 
would undoubtedly reduce the number of 
adults that will winter over. As there 
seems to be but one brood and this is 
most troublesome to the late crop the 
injury could be materially reduced by 
planting the beans as early as possible. 
Lima Bean Pod Borer 
Etiella zinckenella Treit. 
Family Pyralids 
General Appearance 
The adult moths are gray with ocherous 
blotches on the fore wings. There is a 
Fig. 1. 
er, Htiella 
Lima Beans. 
The Work of the Lima Bean Pod Bor- 
zinckenella (Treit), on Bush 
(Original. ) 
