. Bulletin. Insects; Insect pests; Entomology; Insects; Insect pests; Entomology. DEVELOPMENT AND HABITS OF THE YOUNG. 23 patches, as seen in tigure 5, where they are shown on a stalk of y(jung corn. Mr. E. A. Schwarz relates a curious exception to this habit in Florida u^Don sand oats, Uniola paniculafa, where the entire dev^elop- ment of the insect is undergone upon the highest part of this tall plant and not close to the bottom. Mr. Schwarz has given as a proba- ble reason for this the fact that strong winds are continually blowing the fine, sharp sand through among the lower parts of the p
. Bulletin. Insects; Insect pests; Entomology; Insects; Insect pests; Entomology. DEVELOPMENT AND HABITS OF THE YOUNG. 23 patches, as seen in tigure 5, where they are shown on a stalk of y(jung corn. Mr. E. A. Schwarz relates a curious exception to this habit in Florida u^Don sand oats, Uniola paniculafa, where the entire dev^elop- ment of the insect is undergone upon the highest part of this tall plant and not close to the bottom. Mr. Schwarz has given as a proba- ble reason for this the fact that strong winds are continually blowing the fine, sharp sand through among the lower parts of the plants, rendering it nearly or quite impossible for the bugs to remain in that situation, thus forcing them to seek their sustenance farther up the plants. While figure 5 gives a good representation of the appearance of a corn plant when the chinch bugs are present in excessive numbers, yet the writer has invariably found that these bugs much prefer a stalk that has been blown doAvn by the wind or partly broken off by the 13I0W and left lying nearly flat upon the groimd. In timoth}^ meadows the very young are to be found only by pull- ing away the soil from about the bulbous roots and drawing down. Fig. 4.—Blissus leucoptcrus: adults .of short-winged form. Much euhirged (origiual). the dead sheaths that usually envelop them. An observer may even pull up a tuft of grass entire, and yet, unless he examines in this way closely, may overlook them, so snugly are they thus ensconced among the roots. If driven to forsake a tuft of grass the young bugs move to another and crawl downward, and are soon to be found as snugly settled as before. It is only when they are older and well advanced toward maturity that they work to any extent above ground, and even then only in cases where they are present in great numbers. Singularly enough, where infested meadows are plowed up and planted wdth corn the females seem to ignore the young corn plants and select the occasional stray clumps of timo
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