Show POTATO INSECTS r r VERY INJURIOUS I Colorado Beetle Is Sure to Exact Heavy Toll if Close Watch Is Not Kept I HARMFUL TO GARDEN CROPS Attacks Eggplant Tomato Ground Cherry and Other Plants Plants Blister Blister Beetle Feeds Upon All Alt Forms of Garden Truck Prepared by the United States Depart Department Depart ment of or Agriculture If It careful wn atch t h Is not kept the Colorado potu potato to beetle Is certain to exact a hea heavy toll This beetle and Its slugs are so well known that no description description description de de- Is necessary here hero The range of this pest covers a n large portion of f the United States but it Is ml extensively e. or in especially Injurious numbers near neal the Rocky mountains It abounds from flom New England England Eng Eng- land and Canada to Florida westward to Te Texas as and In the north northern rn Pacific region where it has lias become trouble trouble- some only recently Both Doth the slugs the young youn or larvae and the beetles adults feed upon the potato plants After passing the winter In Inthe inthe inthe the ground the beetles usually appear at t about the same time as ns the tine potato I plants lay Iny their eggs and continue feeding They rhey often destroy small areas fig especially those grown for garden garden garden gar gar- den purposes When the slugs of the first crop begin their work worl they usually finish up that begun b by the beetles leaving only bare stems which become dr dry and black After exhausting the potato the beetles attack eggplant and mid other outer plants of the potato family Including tomato ground cherry cherr JImpson weed tad and related weeds In the most northern northern north north- ern era rang range of or this Insect there is probably probably probably ably only one generation a n year but two generations and a n partial third occur occur occur oc oc- cur southward Ducks guineas and other domestic fowls eat ent the beetles beetle and larvae So SoK Sor r K I f Colorado I do Potato Beetle and Slugs or Larvae at Work also do snakes toads and skunks ks which frequently gorge on them Arsenate Arsenate Ar Ar- se senate ate of lead lend Is thc best remedy applied ap plied as advised under Lend Lead Arsen Arsen- ate Blister lister Beetles I Blister beetles beetles' are next In Imp Importance r- r lance tance to the Colorado l beetle as potato Insects They ibey are arc slender some some- what soft bodied of ot various colors and feed upon all nU forms of garden truck appearing to prefer potatoes following with beans peas pens and related related related re re- crops beets cabbages squashes and others When occurring on the potato potato po po- tato tuto they are sometimes called tho tiro old fashioned potato bugs Lead arsenate is the best remedy prepared and applied as ns directed for forthe forthe forthe the Colorado potato beetle but driving and burning also are useful I |