The chinch bug. (Blissus leucopterus Say.)

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Series: Circular (United States. Bureau of Entomology), no.113

By

Webster, F. M. (Francis Marion), 1849-1916

United States. Bureau of Entomology.
United States. Department of Agriculture.

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

Washington, D.C, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Bureau of Entomology, 1909

Notes

Caption title.

Circular No. 113.

"Issued November 13, 1909."

At head of title: United States Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Entomology.

Contents: Introductiion. pp. 1.

Contents: Descriptions of the different stages. pp. 2.

Contents: Seasonal history. pp. 3.

Contents: Hibernation. pp. 5.

Contents: Food plants -- Losses caused by chinch bugs. pp. 7.

Contents: Natural enemies of the chinch bug -- The bobwhite or quail. pp. 9.

Contents: Other bird enemies -- The frog. pp. 10.

Contents: Insect enemies -- Natural checks other than animals. pp. 11.

Contents: Parasitic fungi. pp. 13.

Contents: Remedial and preventive measures -- Destruction of chinch bugs while in hibernation. pp. 14.

Contents: Sowing decoy plats of attractive grains or grasses in early spring -- Watchfulness during protracted periods of drought. pp. 16.

Contents: Difficulty of reaching chinch bugs in meadows. pp. 17.

Contents: Eliminating chinch bugs from Timothy meadows by crop rotation -- Utility of kerosene in fighting chinch bugs. pp. 18.

Contents: Utility of deeply plowed furrows supplemented by the use of kerosene emulsion. pp. 19.

Contents: The surface and coal-tar method -- The ridge and coal-tar method. pp. 20.

Contents: Other barrier methods. pp. 22.

Contents: The use of furrows without petroleum or coal tar -- Necessity for preventing chinch bugs from becoming established in fields of wheat and grass. pp. 23.

Contents: Summary of remedial and preventive measures -- Prospects of a future outbreak. pp. 26.

Subjects

Chinch-bugs , Control , Insect pests

Language

English

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.63436
NAL: 1 En82C no. 113 1909
OCLC: 811051598
Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q51456172