Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-11-01
HOW BUGS Do AN
INJURY TO CROPS
INSECTS INJURIOUS TO FRUIT
AND OTHER PRODUCTS NRE
SHOWN At CONGRiSS,
The apple EATING moth
Bureau oi Entomology Has An Inter
csting lENhibil-tcIcai and
Forage Insects, Too,

In the bureau Of entomology exhibit
in the government building nt the
farm exposition is great education
on insects injurious to fruit and other
crops,
one case contains specimens and
photographs representing some of the
important injurious insects of the ap-
pie and peach The codling moth
the cause of wormy apples, causes a
loss each year to apple growers Of
some $4,000. 600 or l5,000,000, The
round headed apple tree boror Is a
serious pest of the apple. The flat
headed apple tree borer usually at
tacks trees in a weakened or sickly
condition. The fruit-tree bark beetle
attacks most kinds of fruit trees after
they have become weakened or dis
aased from any cause. The apple tree
tent caterpillar while usually present
every year i'm orchards. n not very
destructive and is readily controlled
Cankcr worms, very much in evidence
from year to year, and where num-
erous, completely defoliate trees in
is especially likely to be found on APP
pie trees, as well as peach.
The peach tree borer is probably
the worst enemy Of the peach in the
east. The plum curculio is the cause
Of wormy peaches, and II also in
jures plums, cherries, apples, pears,
etc. The peach tree bark beetle is
near relative of the fruit-tree bark
beetle, with much the same habits.
The San Jose scale is very destructive
TO most orchard fruits.
Specimens of the potato tuber moth,
the Colorado potato beetle, and in
furious blister beetles, flea beetles and
stalk borers.
Among the insects which attack
man or domestic animals are six cases
containing specimens of the Tsetse
flies which transmit sleeping sickness
in Africa, the tick which transmits
splenetic fever of cattle, the stable f'y
which is supposed to carry infantile
paralysis and other diseases, and mos
quitoes which convey malaria and
yellow fever. In addition. there are
enlarged models of the mosquitoes.
Cereal and Forage ynsccis.
Three gases consisting OF speci-
mems and illustrations of insects in
furious to small grains. This contains
such well known pests as the chinch
bug, army worm, wheat straw worm,
grasshoppers blister beetles, etc.
one case exhibiting specimens and
Illustrations of the various stages of
the Hessian fly, together with speci-
mems showing the damage caused
by IT,
-Four cases containing compro-
hensivc exhibit of the principal in
socts injurious to Indian corn. This
includes the corn bill bug, chinch
bug, white grub, various wireworms,
the corn root beetles, the larger ana
smaller corn stalk borers, various
species of grasshoppcrs and a con-
siderable variety of lepidopt 81
pests.
One case containing illustrations
illustrations Of insects injurious 10
furious to wheat.
Two cases showing some Of the IN
sects injurious to grasses. This con-
tains an entirely new exhibit show
ing the varioui stages of the New
Mexico range caterpillar from the egg
to the adult, together with several of
its parasites.
one case containing specimens and
aillustrations of insects injurious 70
alfalfa. This includes the alfalfa cat
erpillar, the alfalfa looper, the alfalf9
gall mdge and rather complete ser
les of the alfalfa weevil, an import
ant European pest which has recent
ly become very injurious in the vicin
ity of Salt Lake City, Utah. Also
specimens and illustrations Of the al.
falfa seed chalcis fly. an insect most
injurious to the alfalfa seed crop over
a large portion of the country. In
addition to this, series Of the vari-
Gus blister beetles often found injur-
ing alfalfa, aggregating in all sixteen
cases
In addition to this, there are in