INSECTS OF COMMERCIAL IMPORTANCE IN FLORIDA— 
THEIR IDENTIFICATION AND CONTROL (Continued ) 

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 soil fumigant and Soilfume 80-20 can now be used in the 
control of wire worms. (See page 68 for further details). 

SOD WEBWORM. The worms which range from 14 to 34” 
in length, are of a grayish green color. Their presence in 
lawns or turfs is usually indicated by the damage done to 
grass as well as masses of excrements and messy looking webs 
near the base of grass blades. 
DUST RECOMMENDATIONS FOR SOD WEBWORMS 
Kilchlor Dust-5%. Apply at the rate of 1 Ib. per 100 square 
feet. 
SPRAY RECOMMENDATIONS FOR SOD WEBWORMS 
Synklor 50-W. Use 3 tablespoons per 10 gal. water to be ap- 
plied to 100 square feet of turf. 
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GRASSHOPPERS 
DUST RECOMMENDATIONS 
CF SF EF 
Kilchlor Dust 59% 2-|- 4 3 
Kilphene 10 Dust Zo 4,6 3 
SPRAY RECOMMENDATIONS 
Synchlor 50-W 
2 Ibs. to 100 gal. water 24- 4 1 
Alltox Wettable No. 400 
4 lbs. to 100 gal. water J 4,6 ] 

ANTS. These variable-sized insects are too well known to 
need further description but their control in yards, in and 
around shrubbery or trees, and in turfs and lawns is some- 
times a very troublesome problem. Listed below are two highly 
specific and effective controls. 
DUST RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE CONTROL OF 
ANTS IN TURFS, LAWNS AND YARDS 
CF SF EF 
J-- 4 3 
SPRAY RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE CONTROL OF 
ANTS IN TURFS, LAWNS AND YARDS 
CF SE EF 
Kilchlor Dust 5% 
Synchlor 50-W 
2 Ibs. to 100 gals. hes 4 I 

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 F 
Kilchlor Dust 5% ie 4 3 
Kilcide 5 Dust IJ 4,6 1 
Kilphene 10 Dust ipo. 4,6 3 
SPRAY RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE CONTROL OF 
COLORADO POTATO BEETLE 
CF SF EF 
Alltox Wettable No. 400 
4 Ibs. to 100 gals. JE 4,6 1 
DDT 50% Wettable 
2 Ibs. to 100 gals. 
DDT 25% Emulsion 
1 qt. to 100 gals. if 4,6 1 
Synchlor 50-W 
2 Ibs. to 100 gals. 
J+ 4,6 l 
14 4 1 

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 larva resembles 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 immediate- 
ly after picking is of the utmost 
importance. 

DUST RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE CONTROL OF 
PEPPERS WEEVIL 
CI SF EF 
Kilcide 5 Dust 2 4,6 1 
Kilgam Dust-l14% 2 Asi 7 
Kryocide Dust 30-70 3 2 vs 
SPRAY RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE CONTROL OF 
PE PIPE Re VESEY TG 
CF SF EF 
DDT 50% Wettable 
2 Ibs. to 100 gals. 2+ s(t l 
Isotox Wettable No. 250 
1 lb. to 100 gals. 26 4,7 3 
SWEET POTATO WEEVIL. Sanitation is the most practical 
control known at the present time. Approved practices are: 
(1) Plant only seed and plants certified free of weevils; (2) 
Rigid crop rotation; (3) Thorough clean-up of old vines and all 
other crop refuse; (4) Dispose of any potatoes in storage which 
are found to be infested with this insect. 

The Standard of Quality in Florida for 40 Years 
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