. Birds in their relations to man; a manual of economic ornithology for the United States and Canada . FLANT-BUG. THE ANIMAL FOOD OF BIRDS. 45. ROSE creatures with elongate-oval bodies and hind legs fitted forjumping. An idea of their appearance may be obtained fromthe accompanying picture, which represents the well-knownrose leaf-hopper. The adult of this species is about onc-tcntliof an inch long, with a yellowisli-whitebody and white semi-transparent wing-covers, it injures the rose-leaves by suck-ing out the cell contents, giving the uppersurface a Avhite
. Birds in their relations to man; a manual of economic ornithology for the United States and Canada . FLANT-BUG. THE ANIMAL FOOD OF BIRDS. 45. ROSE creatures with elongate-oval bodies and hind legs fitted forjumping. An idea of their appearance may be obtained fromthe accompanying picture, which represents the well-knownrose leaf-hopper. The adult of this species is about onc-tcntliof an inch long, with a yellowisli-whitebody and white semi-transparent wing-covers, it injures the rose-leaves by suck-ing out the cell contents, giving the uppersurface a Avhite-spotted appearance. Oneor more members of this family live upona large proportion of the flowering plants,both wild and cultivated, and often doserious damage. None of the true bugs are so constantlyand generally injurious as the plant-lice, oraphides, which form the family common green fly of house plantsis an example of this group, and nearly every cultivated cropis subject to the attack of one or more species. The normallife-history of these little creatures may be briefly outUned inthis way: In the spring there hatches from an egg
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