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Show i Alfalfa Weevil -Life History j ground under trah and in crevices. cre-vices. In April it lays ejjgs in the stems of the growing alfalfa. About eght eggs are deposited in each hole and one weevil averages 500 eggs. These yellow eggs may be- found by splitting open an alfalfa al-falfa stem which has been punctured. punctur-ed. The eggs hatch out into small worms in about two weeUs nnd t'he new-born weevil starts on its year of life. Next Article: Control an Individual Indivi-dual Problem. cocoon. Tne cocoon is often attached at-tached to a curled up alfalfa leaf which may readily be found by hunting in the stubble. The weev.L stays in the cocoon stage lor about two weeks during which time it gradually changes from a green worm into a dark brown beetle three-sixteenths of an inch long. Tn is beetle crawls around and is also able to fly. It can be found by searching in the stubble or, if abundant, 'by looking on the bottom of the hayrack just after a load of the second crop has been taken off. The adult never eats enough alfalfa al-falfa to do noticeable damage. It lives over until the next year ' spending the winter close to the I , k j liy W. V. OWKNS I I U. S. A. C. Extension Service (Editor's note: This is the first of a series of seven .articles prepared prepar-ed by Mr. Owens Cor this pnpr-r, on weevil control. ) The reen worm w it'll a black head which eats the alfalfa leaves, is one stage of the alfalfa weevil which every farmer knows. The entire life of the individual weevil usually covers twelve months and it is only in the worm or larval stage for one month but it is at t'nis time 'it does damage. It is necessary to know where the wee vil is and what it 'does the other j eleven months of its life in order j to find the weakest spot at which I to strike to destroy it. The worm lives but one month I during the spring season, varying wit h altitude, from May t'hrough June. Some earlier, some Later, but the average worm is considered consider-ed here. At the end of a month it has grown from a tiny worm, one-twentieth of an inch long, to its mature size three-eighths of an inch long. It drops down to the ground, curls up and spins around I itself a white netlike web called a MACON FMG11T SET WASHINGTON, April 8 (U.R) The first trinl flight f the new airship Macon was scheduled sched-uled by the navy department today for sunrise, April 13. |