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A law was passed in Aug., 1620, requiring that turkeys should be 
kept confined during the time of planting corn, because of the 
damage that they did by scratching it up, and “untill the said corne 
shall be found to be half legge high above ground.” But in August, 
1623, this act was repealed because it was found that the cut-worms 
and caterpillars were increasing very rapidly and devastating the 
corn. But it is now impossible to identify the species referred to. 
Governor Butler’s account, 1619, of the insects is as follows : 
“The moscitoes | Cudex| and flies [ House-fly ?] also are somewhat 
over busie, with a certain Indian bugge called, by a Spanish appella- 
tion, a caca-roche,* the which, creepeinge into chestes and boxes, eate 
and defile with their dung (and thence their Spanish name) all they 
meet with ; as doe likewise the little aunt [house ant], which are in 
the summer time in infinite numbers ; wormes [grubs or cut worms] 
in the earth and mould also, ther are but too many (but of them we 
shall saye somewhat more by and by), as likewise the grass-hopper,t 
and a certaine sommer-singinge great flie, [ Cicada Bermudiana| 
the sure token of the established springe (and in that respect as the 
English nightingale and cukoe), whose loud note very much resem- 
blinge the whirle of a spindle, hath caused herselfe thereby to be 
called the good-huswife.” 
b.— Modes of Introduction. 
The Rice Weevil (fig. 153), Bean Weevil, Larder Beetle (fig. 171), 
Meal Beetles, and various other household imsects, such as the 
Clothes Moths (figs. 146,147), Fleas, Bedbug, House-fly, Meat-flies, 
etc., were doubtless introduced from England by the early settlers, 
as well as the parasites of domestic animals and poultry.{ But other 
more tropical species, such as the Jigger, larger Cockroaches, etc., 
were brought from the West Indies. 
Insects whose larve live in fruit or seeds are easily introduced. 
* Cockroaches of several species are now abundant. The most common are 
Periplaneta Americana, P. Australasic Brunn., and Panchlora Maderce. Prob- 
ably one or more of these may have been indigenous. 
+ Probably the green Conocephalus dissimilis. Fig. 191. 
{ The hens, especially when sitting, and their nests, are badly and injuriously 
infested with a small, active parasitic insect called ‘‘ Merrywig” or ‘‘ Merry- 
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wing. I did not see specimens myself, but heard complaints of their 
abundance. 
TRANS. Conn. Acap., Vou. XI. 47 Dec., 1902. 
