Report of the Commissioners . of various kinds. It hybernate^in the autumn and winter in the bark of trees, which affords it a protection against coldand storms. HYBERNATION—A PROLIFIC PEST. It hybernates in its perfect state, while the Hessian fly, as we have seen, passes the•winter in the larval state. In the Western States, where it is so abundant, there are agreat many broods during the year. \Mr. JBethune.] 28 INSECTS AND INSECTIVOROUS BIRDS. WATER DESTRUCTIVE TO IT. One of the remedies for it is the application of water. A heavy thunder storm, duringthe season of its ravages, is wortli m
Report of the Commissioners . of various kinds. It hybernate^in the autumn and winter in the bark of trees, which affords it a protection against coldand storms. HYBERNATION—A PROLIFIC PEST. It hybernates in its perfect state, while the Hessian fly, as we have seen, passes the•winter in the larval state. In the Western States, where it is so abundant, there are agreat many broods during the year. \Mr. JBethune.] 28 INSECTS AND INSECTIVOROUS BIRDS. WATER DESTRUCTIVE TO IT. One of the remedies for it is the application of water. A heavy thunder storm, duringthe season of its ravages, is wortli millions to tlie farmers of the Western States. It is soexcessively numerous there, at times, that every living article of vegetation is completelycovered with it. It is also very offensive, belonging to the bug family properly socalled. METHOD OF ATTACK. Its method of attack is to cluster about the heads of grain, and extract the juiceby means of its proboscis or snout. It makes its appearance on tlie grain in all stagess. Fig. , on the left hand a specimen of the true chinch bug, on the right an ordinary bug, magnified. {See fig. 6.) One brood after another keeps constantly appearing, from early in the springtill late in the autumn. It attacks barley, oats, rye, and other crops as well as wheat. NEVER QUIESCENT—ALWAYS HUNGRY. The order to which the chinch bug belongs, viz., the Jleiniptera, do not undergoecomplete transformation, and have no quiescent state, such as those insects which assumethe butterfly form, during which they remain dormant and take no food whatever, butfrom the time they are hatched to the time of their death are incessant feeders, and conse-quently are more destructive individually than the other orders. In the case of thisinsect, as with many other bugs, we may find it at the same time in all stages of growth,from the minute undeveloped creature to the perfect winged insect, and all hard at worksucking out the juices of the plant they attack
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