. A manual for the study of insects. Insects. 144 THE STUDY OF INSECTS, of it IS the nature of the venation of the membrane of the wing-covers. This part is furnished with many- veins, most of which spring from a cross-vein near its base (Fig. 176). The Squash-bug, Anasa tristis (An^a-sa tris'- tis), is a good example of this great family. These when full- grown are brownish-black bugs, with some yellow spots along the edges of the abdomen (Fig. 177), and are dirty yellow on the under side. This bug winters in the adult state, and takes the first opportunity in the spring to lay its e
. A manual for the study of insects. Insects. 144 THE STUDY OF INSECTS, of it IS the nature of the venation of the membrane of the wing-covers. This part is furnished with many- veins, most of which spring from a cross-vein near its base (Fig. 176). The Squash-bug, Anasa tristis (An^a-sa tris'- tis), is a good example of this great family. These when full- grown are brownish-black bugs, with some yellow spots along the edges of the abdomen (Fig. 177), and are dirty yellow on the under side. This bug winters in the adult state, and takes the first opportunity in the spring to lay its eggs on the earliest sprouts of squash and pumpkin vines. As soon as they hatch, the young bugs attack the vines and are apt to destroy them ^^'^ ^^^.-Anasa. entirely. The remedy is to protect the young tnsus, plants by frames covered with netting. Family Pentatomid^ (Pen-ta-tom'i-dae). The Stink-bug Family, This is a family the taste and odor of which most of us know to our sorrow. We learn the flavor in one experience, and conclude that once is enough for a Hfetime. To those who live in cities it may always remain a mystery why one berry looking just like another should taste and smell so differently; but all barefooted boys and sun-bonneted girls from the country who have picked the wild strawberries on the hillsides or scratched their hands and faces in raspberry patches know well the angular green or brown bugs that leave a loathsome trail behind them ; and they will tell you, too, that the bugs themselves are worse than their trail, for it is a lucky youngster that has not taken one of these insects into his mouth by mistake with a handful of berries. It should not be concluded, however, that only members of this family possess this disagreeable odor; for most of the Heteroptera protect themselves by rendering their bodies unpalatable in this way. Doubtless birds soon learn this. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digita
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