. The insect book [microform] : a popular account of the bees, wasps, ants, grasshoppers, flies and other North American insects exclusive of the butterflies, moths and beetles, with full life histories, tables and bibliographies. Insectes; Insects. THE CHINCH-BUG FAMILY (Family Lygaidie.) W â : f. ilM 'r,'f;i-^ This is one of the large families of plant bugs, comprising rather more than 1,300 species, distributed in thirteen subfamilies and 208 genera. Of these about 17s species are known in the United States. No good popular name has been proposed for this gro^p. Comstock calls it the "
. The insect book [microform] : a popular account of the bees, wasps, ants, grasshoppers, flies and other North American insects exclusive of the butterflies, moths and beetles, with full life histories, tables and bibliographies. Insectes; Insects. THE CHINCH-BUG FAMILY (Family Lygaidie.) W â : f. ilM 'r,'f;i-^ This is one of the large families of plant bugs, comprising rather more than 1,300 species, distributed in thirteen subfamilies and 208 genera. Of these about 17s species are known in the United States. No good popular name has been proposed for this gro^p. Comstock calls it the " chinch-bug family " from its most famous representative, but of course this is not a distinctive name. The Lygaeids are distinguished from other bugs chiefly by the membrane of the front wing, which has four or tlve simple veins, and by the antenna;, which are inserted low down on the side of the head. Many of these bugs, when full grown, have the wings either long or aborted, so that in the same species there are both long- winged and short-winged forms. All live on the juices of plants, and the family contains many injurious forms. The most prominent of these is the chinch-bug (Blissiis leinopterusj. a little bug which occurs in America and the West Indies and all over the United States and north into Canada. It feeds on Indian corn and on wheat and other small grains and , puncturing the stalks, and causing them to wilt. Its great noto- riety as a crop destroyer arises from the incalculable numbers in which it appears in dry seasons. The average annual loss which this insect causes to the United States cannot be less than ,000. Another very common and destructive insect belonging til this lamily is the so-called "false chinch-bug" {Ny^ius. Fig. 2C2 â serripes Dliv. I Aflcr '-r-I. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration an
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