Vernal Express | 1937-08-05 | Page 6 | Farmers Battle Beetle Menace

I Farmers Battle I Beetle Menace i I I F T a al jy l i ik iA iH ic ie k I A Ii H i c u I I e v It- It re rea I ItI a 4 f I t ti Ia I IIa i Already plagued with grasshoppers grasshoppers grasshoppers pers the corn-borer corn and a half dozen half half- I dozen other forms of pestilence AmerIcan farmers have be- be beto beI beseeched beseeched I the federal government to aid them in to the latest scourge to attack their the crops the Japanese beetle In Inthe inthe the photo above Fred Gil- Gil Gilmore Gilmore more Gil-more more federal agent is placing a beetle trap near Kenosha V Wis The trap is II baited with an aro aromatic aro- aro aromatic aromatic I matic substance that attracts the adult beetles bt The insects spend most of their lives In the soil where the grub feeds on the roots ot of plants and then hatches into an adult which comes up to eat fl flowers fruit and foliage tollage