10 Bugs, Butterflies, and Beetles 



that they could capture which would not be found 

 in their collection. 



If you will go to the pumpkin vine, the gourd 

 vine, the squash vine, you can probably find some 

 of the ill-smelling insects known to the country 

 boys as " stink bugs," and to the farmer as " squash 

 bugs " — ^these are real bugs. 



In the United States we have about sixteen 

 hundred varieties of bugs which have been labelled, 

 but Prof. R. P. Uhler, of Baltimore, is quoted by 

 Mr. Leland O. Howard as saying "there are prob- 

 ably five thousand species of bugs in the United 

 States and he tliinks that fifty thousand would not 

 be too large an estimate of the number of different 

 bugs in the world." From this you may learn that 

 if you want to get down to business and make a 

 complete collection of bugs there will not be time 

 for butterflies and beetles, nor will you have much 

 time to devote to any other branch of study or 

 play; still, one can make a fine collection without 

 giving up all of one's time to it. 



Bugs, like women, seem to be very fond of 

 perfume, but, like some of the women, the perfume 

 they use is not always the kind we would choose. 

 The squash bug and the chinch bug have not 



