Let's Do Away With Insects | 
To know HOW to fight insect pests you first have to recognize them. The pic- 
tures below will help you in identifying the various sucking and chewing in- | 
sects which will attack your garden. 
Insects are spread over the season and in different stages of life from the 
egg, larva to the bug itself. Their methods of attack vary in two ways—either | 
chewers or suckers. The wide variety of harmful insects in their varied stages 
of life require in some cases some vastly different chemicals to meet the imme- 
diate requirements. 
“A PORTRAIT. GALLERY 
OF GARDEN. ENEMIES. 
SUCKING INSECTS 
CHINCH BUG, 
3/16" 
RED SPIDER 
MITE, 1/60° 
TARNISHED 
PLANT BUG, 1/4" 
GLADIOLUS 
THRIP, 1/16" 
CABBAGE 
APHID, 1/32" 
BEET LEAF 
HOPPER, 1/3" 
CHEWING INSECTS 
MELON APHID, 
SQUASH BUG, 
3/32" x 
xg 
STRIPED CUCUMBER SPOTTED CUCUMBER 
BEETLE, '/4"' BEETLE, '/6 
CABBAGE 
WORM, 1” 
ASPARAGUS 
BEETLE, 7/32" 
ROOT MAGGOT, 
3" 
TOMATO HORN 
ASH VINE 
oa WORM, 3" - 4" 
a" 
CUT WORM, 
"1" 
BORER, 
POTATO 
BEETLE, 3/," 
FLEA BEETLE 
MEXICAN BEAN CORN BORER, 
1/16" “ 
BEETLE, 5/16" 1 
CODLING MOTH, _ CABBAGE CARROT CORN EAR 
Ya" = Ya" LOOPER, 11/2" WEEVIL, Va" WORM, Vo" = 114" 
Vegetables Attacked | 
ASPARAGUS—The Asparagus Beetle. 
BEANS—Mexican Bean Beetle Aphids. Leaf | 
| Hoppers. Red Spider Mites. 
BEETS, CHARD and SPINACH—Aphids. Spin- 
ach Flea Beetle. Spinach Leat Miner. 
CABBAGE, CAULIFLOWER, BROCCOLI, BRUS- 
SELS SPROUTS—Cabbage Worm, Cabbage 
Looper. Root Maggots, Aphids. 
CARROTS, CELERY—Carrot Weevil. Leaf Tyers. | 
CORN—Corn Borer. Ear Worm. | 
CUCURBITS (VINE PLANTS)—Melon Aphid. | 
Striped Cucumber Beetle. 12 Spotted Cucum- 
ber Beetle. Squash Vine Borer. Squash or 
Stink Bug. 
ONIONS—Thrips. Onion Maggot. 
LETTUCE—4 Spotted Leaf Hopper. 
PEAS—Pea_ Aphid. 
POTATO, TOMATO, EGGPLANT, PEPPER— 
Aphid. Colorado Potato Beetle, Flea Beetle. 
Leaf Hopper. Tomato Horn Worm, Tomato 
Fruit Worm. (This is the corn ear worm.) Cut 
worm. 
What They Do 
APHID—Sucks. Colors and sizes varied. Found 
on under side of leaf and on stems. Soft- 
bodied, wingless—also with long, narrow trans- 
parent wings 3 times as long as its body. 
Causes discoloring or curling of leaves. 
ASPARAGUS BEETLE—Gnaws shoots and feeds 
on foliage. 
MEXICAN BEAN BEETLE—Chews. 8 black spots 
on each wing. Spiny larvae skeletonizes leaves. 
CABBAGE WORM—-Velvety green with yellow 
stripes. Chews holes in leaves. 
CABBAGE LOOPER—Pale green with white 
stripes along sides. Chews. 
COLORADO POTATO BEETLE—Lays yellowish 
orange eggs in groups of 20-30 on underside of 
leaves. 5 yellow and 5 black stripes on each 
wing. Chews, 
CUCUMBER BEETLE—Yellow with 3. black 
stripes on back. Chews. 
CUTWORM—Cuts off plants at soil level. 
Found within 8''-10"' radius of plant, about an 
inch below ground surface. Dull colored, 
variably-striped, Curled up, Chews. 
CARROT WEEVIL—Chews. Legless, brown 
headed qrub. Tunnels into crown of plant, filled 
with a sawdust like material or sealed up with 
black exudate to hide egas. 
CODLING MOTH—Pinkish white, brown-headed 
wormis eat holes from side or blossom end of 
apple to core. | 
CORN BORER—Chews, Found on under side of 
leaves. Flat masses of pearly white eqgs, over- 
lapping like scales and pinkish worm |'' long 
with dark heads, 
CORN EAR WORM—Chews. Green to brownish, 
with white stripes along sides. Found in silk end 
of ear. 
FLEA BEETLE—Chews. Shiny, black, round 
beetle. Chews sieve-like holes. | 
LEAF-HOPPER—Sucks, Found on under side of 
leaves. Pale green. Slender winged, wedge 
shaped. Gives leaf tips scorched appearance, 
puckering. 
TOMATO HORN WORM—Chews. Large green 
worm with yellow markings and prominent 
horn-like projection at rear. 
THRIPS—Sucks. Tiny yellow or brownish slender 
bodied, pointed at both ends. Narrow plume- 
like wings. Nymphs wingless, same size and 
shape, but watery white with bright red eyes. 
RED SPIDER MITE—Sucks. Found at apple 
blossom time on under side of leaves. 8 legged, 
very tiny, reddish, whitish, greenish mite. 
Causes yellow or brown blotches on leaves | 
with powdery appearance on under side. 
SQUASH OR STINK BUG—Sucks. Egg clusters | 
of 25-50 reddish brown eggs found on under 
side of leaves, Bug flat, brownish and stinking. 
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