264 Bugs, Butterflies, and Beetles 



elm beetles doing anything like a Fourth of July 

 parade or an orderly march. I have seen millions 

 of them and seen trees stripped by them, but I 

 never saw them move from one place to another 

 in an army. 



THE GRAPE-VINE FIDIA 



This is a very prominent beetle in Missouri ; it is 

 chestnut brov/n in color; that is, its body is a chest- 

 nut brown but its hair is white and it is all clothed 

 with short hair. The grape-vine Fidia has decided 

 ideas on grape-vine leaves as an article of food, and 

 although it will sometimes eat the leaves of the 

 wild grape, it will not if it can help it feed on any 

 other vine than those known as Norton's Virginia 

 grapes and Concords (Fig. 242). 



There is the asparagus-leaf beetle who is a 

 foreigner and the apple-tree leaf beetle and the 

 yellow hemlock beetle, and numerous others which 

 you will find when you take up the study of beetles. 

 There are also cucmnber and squash beetles which 

 you should know by sight. 



THE COLORADO POTATO-BUG 



which, of course, is a beetle and not a bug, is 

 another undesirable citizen, but in this case it is a 



