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  l found under bark of stumps and logs during frosty weather.
    When Spring comes it is rather slow to wake up, and while
  _   the young squash and cucumber plants still bearing seed leaves
jj. g_ j are being badly gnawed by the little striped bug, this sluggish
j 1 “   fellow is not to be seen about cultivated ground. Later, when
  ri j the plants begin to trail, he appears, ready to place eggs for a
  .` ri   brood of young.
j   I The injury done by this bug is of an entirely different char-
,   1 acter from that done by the striped beetle. The leaves are
    pierced by a beak and the sap abstracted as is the case with all
    j true bugs. But while some of them injure plants badly by
  1 simply appropriating the sap, they seem to do no other harm
  i and when they are not very abundant the attacked foliage
    bears no evident appearance of injnry. This bug introduces
  { . something into the wound made by its beak which causes the
  ‘¤.— €   ` I leaves to wilt and hang limp immediately after being attacked,
r ’·»i·     much as they do when the connection with the roots is de-
        stroyed. It is probably a fluid that accelerates the How of sap
I` E; j to the wound, but, whatever its use to the bug, its effect is
  r very destructive}; and may even result in the death of the
  i plant. Since the insect undergoes no marked changes such
    as characterize the striped beetle, its injury is likely to be ob-
    l served at any time during the season after the adults appear
      among the plants; for the young as soon as hatched feed in the
.2    same manner as the adults and continue to do so at all times
    , until fully grown.
    I Egg·.—The eggs are placed in the night on the under sides
    , of the leaves in clusters of from 3, or 4 to go or more. They
    are seed like in character and so large that they can be readily
  seen. Quite often they are crowded in the angle formed by
    , two diverging veins with some approach to a regular arrange-
    — ment, but again may be irregularly scattered. Now and then
    *1n 1895 in a German periodical entitled Centralblatt fur Bakteiriologie
  _ und Parasitenkund駷·l, p. 365, Dr, E, F. Srnith,of the United States De.
    partment of Agriculture, in describing a wilt disease of cucumbers due,
  as he thinks, to bacteria which he names Bacillus imo/zeiphilus, states
    that the disease is conveyed from plant to plant in some cases by both
  the squash bug and the striped cucumber beetle.
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