Guide to the study of insects and a treatise on those injurious and beneficial to crops, for the use of colleges, farm-schools, and agriculturists . pine. oThe singular habits of the Girdler, Onci-deres cingulatus Say (Fig. 489), have thusbeen described by Professor Haldemanin the Pennsylvania Farm Journal, vol. i,p. 34. This inject was first describedby Say in the Journal of the Academ^^ ofNatural Sciences, vol. v, p. 272, 1835, and itshabits were discovered by us and published inour Materials towards a History of the Col-eoptera longicornia of the United States ; Trans., vol. x. p.
Guide to the study of insects and a treatise on those injurious and beneficial to crops, for the use of colleges, farm-schools, and agriculturists . pine. oThe singular habits of the Girdler, Onci-deres cingulatus Say (Fig. 489), have thusbeen described by Professor Haldemanin the Pennsylvania Farm Journal, vol. i,p. 34. This inject was first describedby Say in the Journal of the Academ^^ ofNatural Sciences, vol. v, p. 272, 1835, and itshabits were discovered by us and published inour Materials towards a History of the Col-eoptera longicornia of the United States ; Trans., vol. x. p. 52, 1837. In our walks through the forest our atten-tion was frequently drawn to the branches andmkin shoots of young hickory trees (Carj-aalba), which were girdled with a deep notch insuch a manner as to induce an observer to be-lieve that the object in view was to kill thebranch beyond the notch, and extraordinary asit may appear, this is actually tlie fact, and theoperator is an insect whose instinct was implanted by theAlmighty power who created it, and under such circumstancesthat it could never have been acquired as a habit. The effect.
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