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METHODS OF SUBDUING INSECTS INJURIOUS TO AGRICULTURE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

John L. Leconte
Affiliation:
Philadelphia

Extract

In accordance with the predictions made at the time of its first appearance in the immediate Mississippi Valley, the Colorado potato beetle continues to extend its area of distribution. It has during the last and present seasons reached the Atlantic Coast of the Middle States, and is preparing an invasion in mass of the maritime parts of New England, which will soon be overrun with the same ease with which it has conquered the Western and Middle States. Meanwhile the farmers are anxiously inquiring for means of destroying the invader.

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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1875

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