The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-03-06
PREDICTS OATS
AND WHEAT PEST
Experts Look for Invasion
of Green Bug in
March
FAVORS STARVING OUT
Winter So Mild That Insects
Have Multiplied in Texas
and VIII Emigrate.

sTtfrNNA1ER March be- That
tbc most Injurious crccn bug inios.
tstion sine, tiHt of 1907 WIN r"h'h
it's hcipht iu MARCH, pru,it,ally d'
stroytd the wheat ana ual crop ln
1llIhann. is tho prediction oI &
T. s.uboru. Ftat, cutumuluEisi at
oklahoma \. q VI college. Th'
infcgtatiuu win Doe duo. hc says 7"
mo ruortuuua development oi ih'
ur,cu hug during thC winter 40
north ccutrul Texas.
Professor Sanhorn warns FARMERS
tn curtnl tho planting Of oats "
a. too into To save wheat by The cur
tsIlmcnt OF pln uting method, bul
l,atcs ON onts can br avoided by
tlanting some other crop instead.
rho spring winds viii be laden
with green bugs ON their Journey
northward, each hLs hungry ana
on the lookout for wheat ana ont
fields Tho grren bug VIII not dhin-
age lcgumlnouH crops such as a.
falfa. CoWpcas. peanuts ana the
cioycrs. nor viii IL hurt cotton, corn,
kafir. sorghum, darHo or fetcriia'
thereby sclccting wheat ANA oats al
most exclusively Tor ila ravageH.
There are many conflicting opin-
ions concerning the prospective
green bug menace. Those who re-
fuso to believe It viii occur base
their opinion on tn" fact that the
green bug has not yet appeared ch-
rcpt, possibly, IN a few lochi'llch IN
the state, In numbers 80 small mat
little harm has boon done. These
are but the advance guard OF count
less hordca of the insects which are
soon 10 follow, according To Pro-
fessOr SnnboTu.
Professor Sanborn is recognized as
"a national authority on the green
bug. since 1901 ho has done much
studying and research work concern -
ing the green bug, both I'm the field
and I'm the laboratory. Ilo was IN
Kansas in 1901, in Toxns In 1903,
and, since 1903. has been state en-
tomologist at oklahoma A. n NJ.
college,
There iB no known control OF tho
green bug, according TO Professor
Sanborn, except through lts natural
enemies and by decreasing the acre
age OF oats and wheat, Natural enc
mics are tho prcdacCous and parish
tlcal insects; ladybugs. lacewing flies
and surplus flies being In the tira'
group and iChneumon flies suCh az
small wasps In the second.
Cool weather is conducive to the
reproduction OF tho green bug, ana
at tho same time, retards tho roiro
duction OF its enemies, the iulmica
insects. The most extreme colt
weather which has occurred In Okla
homa this winter would not XIII IN
green bug.
Professor Sanhorn has conducte'
numerous experiments In an attomp
to find method of control Of th
green bug In an infested when
field no sprayed 1.-Two steam undo
12b pounds pressure from n htcar
tractor. II was ineffective. The
: he connected the spray nozzle 80 thh
water from tho boiler, much hottie
than tho ordinary boiling watcl
could be thrown on the green buzz
This, too, was not satisfactory. ~
used spray OF firo generated u
gasoline In a blow-torch, but from
standpoint of economies thus was M
satisfactory. All ordinary chomlri
spray solutions used ON othcr insect
are ineffective on the groon bug.
similarity In Insects.
BeCauSe there are many bugs wit
green coloring. resembling the iniur
GUS green bug. confusion In !dontif
cation arises Too, there are Nv
typcs of the injurious green hug, OF
with wings and the other without.
Identification can be made
means Of the wing markings. Whi
other insects which resemble q
green bug have one wing vein WI
two branches. the green bug has
wing vein with ono branch.
The Injurious green bugs re
name IL ToNoptora Graminum, lite
ally translated, "the bow wing of q
grasses" II was first known In 1S
lRsHF "a ~ n
i'm the United States, Professor Sn
burn's theory being that It cross
the ocean In straw packing OF glas
ware and crockcry shipped from II
rope,
In 1907 tho last general infcstati
In oklahoma occurred. There we
more green bugs In 1916 than
any other year since 1907.
Toxoptera Eramimnum IS n sol
bodied insect belonging to tho plat
louise family. II is about the Size
the ordinary flea and looks like
gnat II is not bug like the bo
wcevil or squash bug. It's Colo't
matches the shade OF greon wheat
oat plant. II has large dark oy
two feelors or "horns" on tho hc'
two honey tubes on the 1hdumt
and a beak or proboscis similar
that OF the mosquito.
The average lie Of tho groon b
is 40 days and during it, lifetime
rcproduccs an average of 90 you
The green bugs method or inil
ing a plant Is tu pierce the ere
part (abovc the ground) with It's !,
bcak and draw the sap. Where
field is badly infested Il viii
ruined In from one Co three days,
Throughout the year IN" green !
appears hut is more harmful In
early spring when the whHat q
oats are short and before wa
weather increases It's insect enOm
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