U. S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Entomology

Download or read book U. S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Entomology written by United States Bureau Of Entomology and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-09 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from U. S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Entomology: Circulars No; 142-148 By C. H. Pornon, Entomological Assistant, Truck Crop and Stored Product Insect Investigations. Until a few years ago the peanut had been considered as almost immune from insect injury, the plant being affected by few insects, and the nuts being protected by their thick shells against most of the usual insect enemies of stored products. There are, it is. True, one or two species of beetles which by reason of their horny jaws are able to cut readily through the woody tissue, but the injury from any of these had been infinitesimal. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.