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INSECTS OF COMMERCIAL IMPORTANCE IN FLORIDA— 

Larva 
WIRE WORM. The hard-shelled beetles are usually brown- 
ish or black in color. The beetles are most generally known by 
the name of snapping beetles, click-beetles, or skipjacks, be- 
cause of their habit of flipping themselves up in the air several 
inches when they happen to fall on their backs. When held 
close to one’s ear, a clicking noise is audible. The larvae are 
mostly hard, dark-brown, smooth, wire-like worms. While the 
beetles are relatively unimportant, the larvae of many species 
attack the roots and stems of grains, corn, cotton, potatoes, 
sugar beets, celery, and many other crops. As wire worms 
(those injurious to crops) spend their larval stage in the 
ground, control in the past has proved difficult. 
D-D, a new soil fumigant, can now be used in the control of wire 
worms. D-D also controls root-knot. (See page — for further 
details) . 
Adult 
FLEA HOPPER. Both adults and nymphs are black. Flea 
Hoppers attack most principal truck crops, but in Florida, only 
celery is affected seriously at times. 
DUST RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE CONTROL 
OF FLEA HOPPER 
CF SF EF 
Kilchlor Dust 5% 2+ 4 5 
Kilcide 5 Dust 2+ 4, 6 1 
Kilgam Dust 144% one 4, 7 u 
Kilhex Dust 144% 2+ 4, 6, 7 3 
Kilphene 10 Dust 2+ 4, 6 4 
Pyrocide Dust No. 7% 1 2 4 
SPRAY RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE CONTROL 
OF FLEA HOPPER 

THEIR IDENTIFICATION AND CONTROL (Continued) 

Adult Larva 
COLORADO POTATO BEETLE. The yellow and _ black 
striped “potato bug” as well as the soft brick-red and black- 
spotted humpback larva is too well known to farmers through- 
out the United States to require any further description. 
DUST RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE CONTROL OF 
COLORADO POTATO BEETLE 
CF SF EF 
Kilchlor Dust 5% 2+ 4 iS 
Kilcide 5 Dust 2+ 4,6 1 
Kilphene 10 Dust 2+ 4, 6 4 
SPRAY RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE CONTROL OF 
COLORADO POTATO BEETLE 
CF SF EF 
Alltox Wettable No. 400 
4 lbs. to 100 gals. 24+. 4,6 1 
DDT 50% Wettable 
2 lbs. to 100 gals. 2+ 4,6 1 
DDT 25% Emulsion 
1 qt. to 100 gals. 2+ 4,6 1 
Synchlor 50-W 
2 lbs. to 100 gals. 2+ 4 4 
PEPPER WEEVIL. The adult 
is shining, brownish black in 
color. Except for the snout, the 
body is covered with gray or 
yellowish scale-like hairs. The 
whitish larve resemble grubs in 
appearance. The pepper weevil is 
most abundant in Manatee and 
Hillsborough counties, but has 
also been of some concern to 
growers in other portions of the 
State. Complete destruction of 
heavily infested fields immediately 
after picking is of the utmost im- 
portance. 
DUST RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE CONTROL OF 
, PEPPER WEEVIL 

CF SF EF 
Kilcide 5 Dust 2+ 4,6 1 
Kilgam Dust-1144% 2 4, 7 i 
Kryocide Dust 30-70 3 2 2 
SPRAY RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE CONTROL OF 

; CF SF EF PEPPER WEEVIL 
Alltox Wettable No. 400 CF SF EF 
4 lbs. to 100 gals. 24+ 4,6 1 DDT 50% Wettable 
DDT 50% Wettable 2 Ibs. to 100 gals. 2+ 4, 6 1 
2 lbs. to 100 gals. 2+ 4, 6 i Isotox Wettable No. 250 
DDT 25% Emulsion 1 lb. to 100 gals. 2+ 4, 7 4 
1 qt. to 100 gals. 2+ 4, 6 ii 
Gamtox Wettable 
3 lbs. to 100 gals. 2+ 4, 6, 7 ] SWEET POTATO WEEVIL. Do not plant sweet potatoes 
Isotox Wettable No. 250 in soils known to be infested with weevils, unless the soil has 
1 lb. to 100 gals. 2+ 4, 7 4 been treated with “D-D” approximately two weeks before plant- 
Synchlor 50-W ing. Kilchlor Poison Bait is a new type of Poison Bait, which at 
2 Ibs. to 100 gals. ya 4 4 present looks very promising. Write us for further information. 
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