Packard.] 
INSECTS OF THE GABDEN. 
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Fig. 13. 
Fig. 14. 
their rapid consumption of the wheat plants rendered it nec¬ 
essary to renew the supply quite as often as before. They 
were fed in this way until the month of 
July. On the 26th of August one of 
the grubs changed into a pupa and on 
the 3rd of September the first beetle 
appeared. It is a pale reddish brown 
insect. This insect and its allies are 
called click or snapping beetles from 
their power of throwing themselves up 
in the air in order to right themselves 
whenever placed by accident on their 
backs. 
Figure 13 represents the grub and snaking Beetle and larva, 
beetle of another wire worm which, 
according to Mr. Walsh, lived in decaying wood 
in his breeding jar for a period of two years. 
Figure 14 (enlarged four times) repre- fig. 15 . 
sents a small slender wire worm found 
by Mr. Sanborn in the roots of the 
squash vine. Another form (Fig. 15 
enlarged twice) is a common wire worm 
in the northern states. Allied to the 
northern elaters, or snapping beetles, is 
the Cuban fire fly (Fig. 16) which has 
two large luminous eye-like spots on 
each side of the thorax, and another at the base 
of the hind body beneath. We have, in New 
England even, a phosphorescent wire worm (Fig. 
17, Melanactes) which sends out a dull greenish 
light at night. 
We cannot, in speaking of remedies, do better W 
than quote from Mr. Bethune’s report. “Lime and wire WoTm * 
soot, to be applied to the soil before sowing any grain, are 
highly recommended by some, but are of doubtful efficacy. 
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Wire Worm. 
