Show Corn Bill A similar course is recommended for destroying the bill-bugs beetles that perforate the young stems and eat the inner part of the so that the unfolding shows the row of holes made by the snout of the beetle it was pushed through the folded leaf-bud into the Bill bugs are thick oval usually with deeply punctured and with the head drawn out forward and downward to a curved snout or At the tip of the bill is the provided with a pair of very small but strong The beetles vary according to species from one-fifth to three-fourths of an inch in Bill bugs do not breed in the corn but in grass timothy and the grass-like plants of The eggs are laid in the ground in May or and the grub-like hatching live within the thicker roots of these plants changing to beetles in late summer and But when corn follows the larvae and beetles go at once to corn for their If the ground is broken in the the beetles leave the as a for more congenial places of winter and the crop of the following year escapes injury by |