The Canadian farm annual for 1880 published in Connection with the Weekly Mail (1880)
Weekly Mail, Toronto · Toronto, The Mail 88 p. illus. 22 cm · leaf 53
ill other kinds of these flies are as-sociated with them, whereby the potato crop there suffersmore frequently from them than it ever does with us. Thelarge green Tomato-worm, Sphinx quinque-maculata, as alreadystated, is somewhat common upon the potato also, eating itsFig. 28.—Truncated leaves.… … GARDEN INSECTS. 55 crop. The species which is most common upon this plant is the Hairy Flea-beetle,Haltica pubescens. This is slightly inferior in size to the Striped Flea-beetle al-ready spoken of, and is not at all glossy. It is black and thinly coated withshort whitish hairs, its antennae and…
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