Annual report of the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station (1917) (14771736944)

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Title: Annual report of the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station
Subjects: North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station Agriculture
Publisher: (Raleigh, N.C.?) : Board of Agriculture
Contributing Library: State Library of North Carolina, Government & Heritage Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation



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80 The Bulletin Table XI.MEASUREMENTS OF 20 FUVJE OF THE CORN BILL BUG. Number Total Length in mm. Width Across MesothoracicLegs in mm. 1 13.87 6.17 2 15.74 6.43 3 12.26 2.56 4 13.56 6.13 5 14.39 6.04 6 12.65 5.47 7 11.39 5.26 8 12.56 6.17 9 12.56 5.56 10 11.08 5.08 11 13.39 5.95 12 14.30 6.13 13 13.56 5.65 14 11.30 5.30 15 12.95 5.86 16 12.13 5.13 17 13.48 5.26 18 13.08 6.08 19 12.95 5.30 20 12.65 5.65 PUPAL CELLS In our work in the insectary and laboratory the larva? when theybecame full grown formed a compact oblong-ovoid cell in the stalk ofcorn, using partly masticated pieces of the cornstalk to plug the larvalburrow and compacting the whole by interminable turnings and twist-ings as noted above (Figs. 51, 52, 53, and 54). In these cells the pupafit loosely. In the field some pupal cells are formed in the stalks of corn andsome are formed in earthen cells in the soil just beneath the roots,usually about one inch deeper than the hole made when we pull a stalkup by the roots (Figs.