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REMEDIES. 
In this matter I can only suggest. I should try the pyrethrum 
and kerosene, as described above, and if they were of no avail, I 
should hope to study out its natural history in hopes that that 
would furnish suggestions that would lead to an effectual cure.” 
2. Greenish or yellow bugs, sucking the juice from the young 
berries, and causing them to “shrivel, harden and become 
knotty. 
*THe TarnisHED Puant Bua, (Lygus lineolaris, Beauy.) 
Order Hemiptera. Family Capsipm. 
[Plates XI, XII, and XIII.) 
As an injurious insect, this species is characterized by its wide 
distribution, its general abundance, its relatively constant numbers, 
the extraordinary variety of plants upon which it feeds, and its 
habitual choice of the freshest, tenderest and most succulent parts 
of the species attacked by it. It extends throughout nearly the 
whole United States, even ascending mountain ranges above the 
timber line, and is abundant in Canada and British America. It 
has no season of incubation, but is to be found alive during every 
day of the year, actively feeding except during its period of winter 
torpidity, from November to March. While there 1s some evidence 
that it is more abundant in dry than in wet years, these differences 
are not remarkable, and bear no comparison to those of the chinch- 
bug and the army worm, and most first-class insect pests. As for 
its food plants, the number and extreme differences of the species 
affected by it are such that it cannot be said to show any marked 
preferences, except for the tenderest growing structures from time 
to time available for its sustenance. It shifts its point of attack 
from.the leaf and flower-buds of fruit trees, to the young fruit of 
the strawberry and the blackberry; thence to the springing tassels 
of corn in the field, and to the foliage of many plants of the flower 
garden. Potatoes and cabbages likewise suffer from its attentions, 
and from its common occurrence almost everywhere in collections 
made in midsummer, we infer that it doubtless draws for. its sup- 
port upon many plants which it has not been actually seen to 
puncture. 
Notwithstanding its great abundance and its long known injuries 
to some of the most valuable products of the garden and the 
orchard, it has never been treated or described in our State reports, 
but has thus far been merely mentioned incidentally, by Dr. Le Baron, 
in his first report. As a consequence, however, of its extraordinary 
abundance in strawberry fields last spring, and its apparent con- 
nection with a most serious and hitherto unexplained injury to the 
strawberry crop, it has lately come to the front as an injurious 
species, in a way to make an exhaustive article upon it desirable, 
the more so as our experiments for its destruction have resulted 
favorably, and we have some recommendations to make, of practical 
value. 
* For summary of this article, see p. 134. 
