. Farm friends and farm foes : a text-book of agricultural science . Agricultural pests; Beneficial insects; Insect pests. CHAPTER VII ( /(^ Hemiptera: The True Bugs While the word bug has been in common English use for a long time as applying to an insect of almost any kind, the entomologists restrict the word to a certain group of insects which they call Hemiptera or Half-winged Insects. The mouth parts of the members of this order are formed for sucking, and the transformations are incomplete, their hfe changes resembling those of the grasshoppers rather than those of the butterflies and mo
. Farm friends and farm foes : a text-book of agricultural science . Agricultural pests; Beneficial insects; Insect pests. CHAPTER VII ( /(^ Hemiptera: The True Bugs While the word bug has been in common English use for a long time as applying to an insect of almost any kind, the entomologists restrict the word to a certain group of insects which they call Hemiptera or Half-winged Insects. The mouth parts of the members of this order are formed for sucking, and the transformations are incomplete, their hfe changes resembling those of the grasshoppers rather than those of the butterflies and moths. An immense number of noxious insects are included in this group, some of the most notorious being the Squash Bug, Chinch Bug, the various kinds of aph- ides or plant hce and of the scale insects or bark lice, the Periodical Cicada, and many other equally injurious pests. The life history of these insects is well il- lustrated by that of the common Black Squash Bug. This pest appears in. the garden in early summer, and the females soon deposit their eggs upon the young squash plants. These eggs are small, rounded objects, more or less triangular in their general outline. In from six to fifteen days they hatch into tiny bugs, which grow into the form and size of the parents. The newly hatched Squash Bug is more brilliantly colored than at any later time in its hfe, and these colors make it conspicuous against the green backgroimd of 73. Squash Bug Magnified very the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Weed, Clarence Moores, 1864-1947. Boston ; New York : D. C. Heath & Co.
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