SATEX SEED COMPANY — SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS 
INSECT & DISEASE CONTROL 
When insects appear look for the following offenders so that you 
may plan your attack correctly. 
CHEWING INSECTS — This class includes all caterpillars, beetle, 
slugs, worms and saw-flies and are controlled by stomach poisons 
such as Arsenate of Lead, Paris Green, London Purple, Garden 
Guard, Pyretoxide, Kryocide (Cryolite), ete. 
SUCKING INSECTS, feed on plants by inserting their beak into 
the tissues of a plant and suck out the sap. Aphis, Stink bugs, 
Psylla, chinch bugs, squash bugs, mealy bugs, white fly and leaf 
hoppers belong to still class and are controlled by contact sprays 
such as Nicotine Sulphate, Evergreen, Garden Guard, Pyretoxide, etc. 
MIGRATORY INSECTS — Insects of crawling type, like cutworms 
ants, sawbugs, grasshoppers, earwigs, slugs and snails are con- 
trolled by poison baits such as Snarol or Destruxol Sow Bug Bait. 
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BRIGHT & FUNGOUS DISEASES — Include leaf spot, rust, mildew, 
anthracnoce, etc., and can be satisfactorily controlled by the applica- 
tion of sulphur or copper as the active ingredient. Plants sprayed with 
copper or sulphur fungicides prevent the tiny disease spores from get- 
ting a foothold on vegetation. Even after plants have been attacked 
by these funguos growth, spraying with the proper fungicide will re- 
tard and in many cases eliminate the disease. 
IF YOURE UNCERTAIN — CONSULT US 
When you’re fighting insects or plant disease, the wrong method 
or material can often do more harm than good. For instance, a 
contact spray that’s right for controlling aphids on roses will not- 
control black spot on roses. 
Material intended for plant diseases 
insects. 
The chart given below covers most of the insects commonly found 
in Southwest Texas and should assist you in classifying and controlling 
them, however. If you’re not sure about any phase of your battle 
against garden pests, feel free to ask us. We’re always glad to con- 
sult — and usually have the correct answer. 
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INSECT OR 
DISEASE DESCRIPTION 











Small Green, Brown or Black soft bodied insects on 
the under side of leaf, suck sap from leaves. Leaves 
curl up and die. 
APHIDS 
Smart gray caterpillars that work at night cutting off 
plant at the base just above the ground. 
CUT WORMS 

Gray, slimy, legless, soft bodied about %%-in. to 2-in., 
long. Leave a slimy silvery trail. Feed on foliage and 
completely destroy young plants. Work at night. 
SLUGS AND 
SNAILS 

SOW BUGS OR 
PILLBUGS 
Small gray bugs roll up when touched. Eat leaves and 
stems work at night or early in the morning on cloudy 
days. 
Rae eg eS 
Beans and Peas—White downy patches of mold on pods. 
Pods dry up shrivel and blacken. 
MILDEW 
ee 
MEXICAN BEAN 
BEETLE 
Copper colored beetles about 4-in. long, with 8 spots 
on each wing cover. Larvae: Yellow spiney grubs feed on 
under side of leaf. 
oe ees ee ee ee 
Soft bodied velvet green worms about one inch long, 
feed on the leaves. 
CABBAGE 
WORMS 
Sa en 

Greenish to brown in color. Feed on developing kernels 
of corn. 
CORN EAR 
WORM 




Small beetles 14-in. long, 4 yellow and 3 black stripes 
on back. Also a spotted type with 12 black spots on a 
green background. Feed on foliage and stem. 
CUCUMBER 
BEETLE 

Small dark or metallic green beetle 1/16-in. long. 
Jumps quickly when disturbed. Eat small holes in leaves. 
FLEA BEETLE 




Very small active black or yellow insects that feed 
under leaf sheath causing plants to be distorted and 
tips blasted. Also cause plants to shed blossoms. 


Oval hard shelled beetle, %£-in. long. Yellow with 
black stripes. Larvae, Red grubs, feed on entire plant. 
COLORADO 
POTATO BUG 


Small green wedge-shaped insects %4-in. long. Walk 
LEAF HOPPER 
leaf. 



CONTROL OR PREVENTION 
Spray under side of leaf with Blackleaf ‘‘40’’—Destruxol- 
Fungosol - Greentox ‘50’? or dust with Nicotine Dust. 
Use a poison bait. 
Snarol or Destruxol Sow Bug Bait. Spread along the 
rows of plants but do not put directly on the plant. 
Spray with Fungosol or Bordeaux. Dust with sulphur. 
Dusting is preferable. 
Dust thoroughly with Kryocide Acme Garden Guard 
or Premeer Powder. 
Use any good stomach poison, recommend, Kryocide 
or Pyretoxide. 
Dust silks as soon as they appear with Kryocide or 
Pyretoxide, or put a drop of mineral oil and blackleaf 
“40”? mixed on the silks. 
Use a good stomach poison. Recommend Kryocide ot 
Pyretoxide. 
Dust with Arsenate of Lead Kryocide or Pyretoxide. 
Spray with Aphis Spray, Blackleaf ‘40’, or Destruxol. 
Add 3 lbs. sugar to a 50 gallon mix. 
Dust or spray with Kryocide - Red River Potato Mix, 
Calcium Arsenate - London Purple. 

Spray with Fungosol - Blackleaf ‘40’. Greentox “50” 
sideways when disturbed, suck sap from under side of] or dust with Pyretoxide. Nicotine dust or Premeer pow- 
der. 
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