Show BEAN BEETLES ARE RAVAGING MOAB GARDENS the mexican bean beetle the pesky insect which made its in moab some years ago is already doing great damage to beans in moab gardens this beetle operates from the under side of the leaves chewing them out in curious lacelike lace like patterns but leaving a thin film of the upper surface the beetle appears in two forms the adult insect a copper colored bu about one fourth of an inch long with sixteen black spots on its back and the same insect in the pupa stage a yellow hairy bug about the size of a bean to knock out these pests you spray or dust the beans getting the poison well under the leaves with magnesium arsenate you mix this for a spray one ounce to three gallons of water or for a dust one part to five parts of hydrated ume calcium arsenate Is also good and Is mixed in the same proportion as magnesium arsenate for a spray but requires the addition of two ounces of hydrated lime to each three gallons of the mixture for a dust calcium arsenate must be mixed one part to seven parts of hydrated lime you spray or dust the beans when you see the first few leaves riddled they spray again about every two weeks three or four times wash the green beans well before cooking them the poisons just named can be bought in many places under proprietary prie tary names with directions on the package better not use arsenate of lead or faris green too strong they burn the leaves |