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Treatment : slit the softer, infested portions, remove the borers and 

 cover the wounded part with earth. Protect young plants with netting. 



43 Striped cucumber beetle ( D i abro tic a vittata). Yellow 

 beetles about in. long, striped with black, occur in numbers on cucum- 

 ber and squash vines. 



Treatment : protect young vines with netting. Dust vines with ashes, 

 plaster of paris, etc. Poison trap crop of squash. 



44 Cucumber flea beetle (Epitrix cucumeris). Brown- 

 ish, gnawed spots on leaves made by numerous black jumping beetles 

 about T V in. long. 



Treatment : spray vines with bordeaux mixture. 



45 Squash bug (Anasa tristis). Wilting leaves with their 

 under surface infested by greenish young or by the large, grayish brown 

 stink bugs about ^ in. long. 



Treatment : place chips and similar shelters near the vines and kill 

 daily the bugs collected underneath. Crush the brownish eggs on under 

 surface of the leaves. 



46 Common asparagus beetle (Crioceris asparagi). 

 Slate colored grubs about }i in. long or yellowish and bluish green 

 beetles about in. long eating the more tender portions of the plants. 

 Occurs on Long Island, in Hudson river valley and in the lake regions of 

 the western part of the state. 



Treatment : spray affected plants with poison. 



47 12 spotted asparagus beetle (Crioceris 12 -punc- 

 tata). Slate colored grubs about in. long or stout, nearly cylindric 

 red beetles with 12 black spots, eating the more tender portions of the 

 plant. Known to occur in the state at Albany, Newark, Brighton, East 

 Amherst, Buffalo and Crosby. 



Treatment: spray affected plants with poison. 



48 Flea beetle on sugar beets (Systena frontalis). 

 Ragged holes and brown spots made by small, jumping, black, red- 

 headed beetles about in. long. 



Treatment: spray affected plants with poison or bordeaux mixture. 



49 Blister beetles (Epicauta cinerea, E. vittata). 

 Feeding in July and August on the foliage of potato and other plants, 

 cylindric, soft beetles about 5/q in. long and black and gray, or black 

 striped with yellow. 



