236 Bugs, Butterflies, and Beetles 



covers has two or more fine ridges or lines rimning 

 up and down. The June-bug's breast is covered 

 with fine long hair and the shell of the beetle seems 

 to be thinner than that of others of its tribe. 



The baby June-bug can play havoc with the 

 clover, the hay and the lawn grass. Last season 

 at Redding, Connecticut, they seriously injured 

 even the pasture lands, leaving big brown patches 

 of dead grass. Underneath the sod on the lawn 

 one could pick up a handful of fat, white, greasy 

 grubs in a square foot of ground. The chickens 

 and birds grew fat, but the farmers grew lean. 

 The crows ate great nmiibers of the beetles and 

 the skunks were not slow in himting them. Some- 

 times the June-bugs injure the trees, but they are 

 such fools, such stupid things, that if one spreads 

 sheets under the trees in the morning, then shakes 

 the branches, they will all fall down in a heap and 

 may be gathered up like apples, crushed and fed 

 to the chickens. 



SPOTTED PELIDNOTA OR GRAPE-VINE BEETLE 



Harris says that the grape-vine beetle (Fig, 

 216) sometimes proves very injurious to the vine, 

 but the writer has never seen them in nmnbers suffi- 



