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Show Spot These Victory Garden Invaders And Learn How to Destroy Them and other vegetables, and rldCa the leaves with small holes. Us rotenone or nicotine dust or spray. The potato bug or Colorado beetle, ! which may also attack eggplant and tomatoes, Is red with black stripes, half inch long. Spray or dust with rotenone or arsenic. Potato leafhoppers are pala green, one-eighth inch long. Also found on beans, swarming on your approach to the plants, on whioh they -cause leaf-curL Nicotine or rotenone dust or spray will control. con-trol. Cutworms are caterpillars of various va-rious moths which hide by day and at night cut off young plants at the soil surface. Protect the plant with collars of heavy paper or cardboard card-board surrounding the stems, e tending an inch below the soil surface sur-face and two inches above, when the plants are set out. Squash bugs are reddish brows to black, three-quarter inch long. They lay egg clusters on under side of leaves, and can be con. trolled by pyrethrum or rotenon spray or dust. The Mexican bean beetle is black sheep of the Lady Bug family. fam-ily. Coppery brown, 8 black spot on each wing cover; it eats vine j , tl...., nrtrt plnctorC fin tin. j - ? v. . STRIPED APHID ASPAPACUt BUSTER. CUCUMBER FLEA BEETLE BEETLE BEETLE BEETLE POTATO POTATO CUTWORM SQUASH g,f BEETLE LEAF HOPPER BUQ BEAN BtETLt TOMATO COM EAR .CABBME CRASSHOPPER WORM WORM WORM 1 I J 1 ' Spotting; Chart of Garden Encmies-These Are the Iiisecl. ' ' WiU Attack Your Victory Garden. Learn to Know Them Lan Flirht Tlipm anu lays jc"un - der side of leaves, which hatch ort into larvae with voracious appfr-ties. appfr-ties. Plants must be thoroughly-sprayed thoroughly-sprayed or dusted with rotenone or arsenic. Victory gardeners have a spot-tmg spot-tmg job to do. Like the watchers lor hostile airplanes, they should be able to identify the insect enemies ene-mies that invade their gardens, so ! ey may know how to fight them. Some of these enemies come by air, and some which cannot fly, just appear ap-pear suddenly like the aphids, you . don't know where from. The chart which accompanies is article will give you the gen-ral gen-ral characteristics of these ene-nties ene-nties and brief descriptions, with ingestions for combating them, follow: There are red, black and green "Phids, but those on vegetables are usually pale green. They cling Jo the under-side of leaves, or on he growing ends of stems of many J'egetables, multiplying with amaz-rapidity. amaz-rapidity. Use rotenone, py-J-othrum or nicotine dust or spray, Mediately first specimens are deleted. Asparagus beetles are blue-black with lemon spots, one-quarter inch long Use rotenone dust or spray while harvest is on, and these or an arsenic dust or spray after the harvest. Blister beetles are grey, striped or black, three-quarter inch long, nrey on potato and tomato plants. Use rotenone or pyrethrum spray or dust, or calcium arsenate dust. The striped cucumber beetle is one of the worst home garden pests yellow body with three black stripes. It breeds in the blossom ends of vine, eats leaves and spreads disease. Dust new growth as it develops with dust composed of 1 lb. calcium arsenate and lu pounds of talc or gypsum repeating repeat-ing until vines are several feet long Young plants should be protected from their first appearance Flea beetles are small flea-nke insects which attack cabbage, eggplant, egg-plant, potatoes, tomatoes, turnips Tomato worms are green caterpillars cater-pillars with conspicuous yellow markings, three to four inches lonj. The worm eats tomato leaves but is easily picked oft", or killed by a rotenone or arsenic spray or duat The corn ear worm is a caterpillar caterpil-lar two inches long, striped and marked green and brown, hatched from eggs laid on the young silk. Inject one-quarter teaspoonful of medical mineral oil In the silk channel of each ear soon after pot , lination. Cabbage worms are pale green I caterpillars one and one-quarter inch long, hatched 'from eggs laid by white butterflies, which ar found on cabbage, cauliflower and other members of the cabbage fan lly. Dust with rotenone or calcium arsenate. Grasshoppers may attack all garden gar-den crops and are best controlled by using the poison bait. |