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and wasps. We have already noticed how well prepared it is for this 

 work by its jaw-like anterior legs, and its sharp, strong, sword-like beak. 

 Mr. Keeney says he caught the one he sent on golden rod. This 

 plant, from its very color, tends to conceal the bug, and from the very 

 character of the plant — being attractive as a honey-plant to bees — the 

 slow bug is enabled to catch the spry and active honey-bee. 



VERDICT. 



As Prof. Uhler well says of the " stinging bug ": " It is very useful in 

 destroying caterpillars and other vegetable-feeding insects, but is not very 

 discriminating in its tastes, and would as soon seize the useful honey bee as 

 the pernicious saw-fly.'' And he might have added that it is equally 

 indifferent to the virtues of our friendly insects' like the parasitic and pre- 

 daceous species. 



We note, then, that this bug is not wholly evil, and as its destruction 

 would be well-nigh impossible, for it is as widely scattered as are the flowers 

 in which it lurks, we may well rest its case, at least until its destructiveness 

 becomes more serious than at present. 



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