| Show g AN r EN underground INSECT PESTS they infest binfet G grain r it R la N and injure nt and corti corn tile tho ohio experiment station devotes an entire bulletin to white grubs and crane flies prolific sources of loss to the farmer in their devastations of important crops tho bulletin referred f to considers these pests moro more especially ally ns as destroyers of the wheat plant pint following is a it a summary of the whole matter Wire wireworks wireworms worms are tho the larvia or grubs grabs of check beetles find breed especially especial Y 13 in i low damp cold soils feeding on oil the roots of gt grass Es and other herbaceous plants no thoroughly practical II method letho of destroying these worms has ns as yet been discovered their numbers may be ba reduced by fall plowing and their haunts rendered unattractive by a rapid rotation of cropland crop and by where ahei e fields of corn are attacked ced and re planting is made necessary it is best to plant the second time between tha oll old rows allowing tile alie latter to stand as ion long as pos possible in order to hold the attention tell t ion of the worms and keep them diverted from the utter latter plants white tire ara the offs of the may imay beetles or june julie bugs whilo while the develop to adults in summer and live over winter in ili that staga th the e white grubs pass tho the winter either cither as grubs or dupai aud and develop to adults in spring otherwise tho the life history of the two is much the same ame tile the eg eggs 0 S are laid in the tl e ground notably in grass lands and hatch in about 0 30 00 days tho the young work little injury tho the first year but the next nest they ravage the fields most seriously these grubs prefer the higler higher to tile the lower lands ind and therefore drainage has much less effect upon thin them th in probably tall fall I 1 tov lowing ing and vapid rapid rotation n of crop are the bast ineth methods to pursue fertilizing with barnyard manure manura is a protection against damage ia in infested fields C A ea THE CRANE FLY crane pies are known also is as gallinis pers ind and many term them cutworm cudwor in flies hicy il laivo tin n r F i 1 IC CUt t thase somo of 0 which are one ona aw others two brooded blooded each 3 ear thee agga i are to deposited posit ted in grass and clover lands more particularly in low flat damp lands the tring maggots gots which aro are often designated desla mated as meadow maggots mag acts feed on the tha roots seldom L appearing above ground except in very wot weather the ravages of oe these larva can be prevented in wheat lands by plowing early in september this measure will also preclude the probability of injury to corn the following year for injuries in grass or clover lands no remedy or preventive is as yet known according to entomologist webster of t tire no ohio station weed suggests g when these insects become troublesome in ili meadows to drive a flock of sheep or lierd herd of swine over the field to kill the larbre by their tramping tiam ping in the cut A I 1 represents ep resents tho the larex or I 1 maggot 0 B D the pupa and 0 the adult |
