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 . r (Fig. 489), have thusbeen described by Professor Ilaldenianin the Pennsylvania Farm Journal, vol. i,p. 34. This insect was first describedby Say in the Journal of the Academy ofNatural Sciences, vol. v, p. 272, 1825, and itshabits were discovered by us and published inour Materials towards a History of the Col-eoptera longicornia of the United States ; Trans., vol. -\. p. 52, 1837. •In (jur walks through the forest our atten-tion was f
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 . r (Fig. 489), have thusbeen described by Professor Ilaldenianin the Pennsylvania Farm Journal, vol. i,p. 34. This insect was first describedby Say in the Journal of the Academy ofNatural Sciences, vol. v, p. 272, 1825, and itshabits were discovered by us and published inour Materials towards a History of the Col-eoptera longicornia of the United States ; Trans., vol. -\. p. 52, 1837. •In (jur walks through the forest our atten-tion was frequently drawn to the branches andmain shoots of young hickory trees (Caryaalba), 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 the1 (ranch beyond the notch, and extraordinary asit may appear, this is actually the fact, and theoperator is an insect whose instinct was implanted by theAlmighty power who created it, and tinder such circumstancesthat it could never have been acquired as a habit. The effect. 488.
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