The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1927-09-09
(FrOm Montana State College,

Wv lille Montana is in the particu-
MAJ Iarly fortunate position of being
Wv relatively free from insects in
furious to plants in spite of the
TACT that there are years when grass
hoppers, cutworms and others do consid-
eraoIe damage, the sum total Of all in
sect damage In the state in a year still
Will reach rather Sizeable proportions,
says r. A. Cooey, state entomologist.
To illustrate this point Mr.. Cooley cites
the great number n variety Of insects
that proved troublesome enough in 1926
TO Montana people to seek assist
ance from the entomologists. h crops
affected included alfalfa, apples, barley,
currants, cherries, flowers, garden crops,
cabbage, corn, potatoes, greenhouse
plants. lawns, native grasses, oats, orna-
mental shrubs, plums, raspberries, roses,
strawberries, stored products, sugar beets.
shade n forest trees, vines, weeds. and
wheat. Practically every plant Of any
commercial Importance has certain in
sect enemies which are more or less
troublesome.
Alfalfa furnished food for alfalfa
thrips, furnished plant bugs, crane dy
larvae, black crickets, army cutworms,
nematodeS, aphiS and blister beetles. An
imals were bothered with sheep ticks.
mosquitoes. bot flies, common ticks, spot
ted fever ticks, ground squirrel ticks and
mites. Apples were injured by codling
moth, blister mite, oyster-shell scale, APP
pie aphis, wOolly aphis and cottony maple
scale. Barley was fortunate in having
only n insect enemy-the wireWorm.
Currants were particularly pestered by
the currant fruit fly and received some
attention from the imported currant
borer, currant aphis, plant lice, cottony
maple scale and cane borer. The pear
slug found cherries most attractive while
mites, maggots and saw-hies also found
| this fruit to their liking. Ants, wire
| worms and aphis proved most trouble
: some to flowers.
Garden crops received injurious vista,
tions from wireworms, cutworms, pes
weevils, grasshoppers, sugar beet web.
worms, spotted blister beetles, garden
: slUgs, beetles, ants, flea beetles, alfalfa
i web worm, painted lady butterfly, com.
mon tiger beetle, plant lice, false wire.
: worms and moths flies u maggots O.
various kinds. Corn suffered from plan
lice, corn earworms and cutworms. Pc
tatoes were bothered most by Colorado
potato beetles, cutworms, leaf-hopper
and WireWOrmS.
2 Greenhouse plants were injured b.
black fly, spring tails, moths, white lice
L greenhouse scale, leaf cutter bees an,
red spider. Nor are homes immune from
the d-epredations of six-legged pests, 70
ants, bedbugs, s~olpugida, house fly, silve
fish. white flies, cockroaches, plant lice
clothes moths, clover mites, gTeenhOus
mites and carpet beetles were found il
q SufhcienC number in one part OF the stat
or another TO cause hOusehOlders to as
d for aid in their determination.
When an appreciative individual mad
the enduring statement that doubles
the Lord might have made a better berr
than the strawberry, but, doubtless b
never did" he doubtless expressed tn
sentiments Of several different insects q
well as those of his human brother,
Among the insects that trouble tn
strawberry are strawberry l~eaf-rolle.
March fly, yellow Jackets, strawberry roc
weevil, strawberry crown-miners, wire
worms, n white grubs.
Even crops are harvested and az
er parently safely stored, certain insects sti
must be contended with. Stored prod