. The American entomologist. Entomology. THE. CIjc l^medtaix ^niomobgist •PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY R. F. STXJX)LE-5r <Sc CO., 104 OLIVE STHEET. ST. LOtJlS. EDITORS : BENJ. D. WALSH Eock Isliiiid, III. CILVS. V. RILEY, 2130 Clark Ave St Louis, Mo. SALUTATORY. To the Agriculturists and Horticulturists of the United States. Few persons are aware of the enonnous amount of wealth aiumally abstracted from the pockets of the cultivatoi's of the soil by tiiosc iiisiguificaut little creatures, which in i)opular parlance are called " bugs," but which the scien- tific world chooses to denominate
. The American entomologist. Entomology. THE. CIjc l^medtaix ^niomobgist •PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY R. F. STXJX)LE-5r <Sc CO., 104 OLIVE STHEET. ST. LOtJlS. EDITORS : BENJ. D. WALSH Eock Isliiiid, III. CILVS. V. RILEY, 2130 Clark Ave St Louis, Mo. SALUTATORY. To the Agriculturists and Horticulturists of the United States. Few persons are aware of the enonnous amount of wealth aiumally abstracted from the pockets of the cultivatoi's of the soil by tiiosc iiisiguificaut little creatures, which in i)opular parlance are called " bugs," but which the scien- tific world chooses to denominate " ; Scarcely a year elapses in which the wheat crop of several States of the Union is not more or less completely ruined by the Chinch-bug, tlie Hes- sian Fly, the "Wheat Midge, or the Joint Worm. It is notorious among fruit growers, that tlie Curcnlio has now almost cntii-ely vetoed tlie cultivation of the plum; and of late years this pernicious little Snout-beetle has extended its ravages to the peach, and even to the apple and pear, to say nothing of those rarer and clioicer fruits, the nectarine and the apricot. The strawberry and the grape vine are infested by a liost of insects, some of them known for many years back to science, others described and / illustrated for the iirst time by the editors of '^ this paper in various publications; while there ire still others the natural history of which has never yet been published to the world, and — which will be figured and described by tlic edi- -?*|( tors in the progress of this work. What with the \ 3ark-louse in the North, the Apple-root Plant- l louse in the South, and the Apple-worm every- M where, the apple crop in North America is if gradually becoming almost as uncertain and ^f precarious as the plum crop. The White Grub attacks indiscriminately the timothy in the meadows, the corn in the plowed field, (lie young fruit trees in the nursery, and the straw- berry beds in the garden; always lur
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