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said to show, that insects which in reality are shaped and fashioned 

 as differently as are cows and deer, are yet often confounded together 

 in the popular eye, principally, no doubt, because they have the 

 same peculiar bed-bug aroma. Should the ignorance of the popular 

 judgment in confounding these tiny creatures, which seem to the En- 

 tomologist so very, very different from each other, therefore, be des- 

 pised and ridiculed ? Far be it from me to display such intolerant 

 stupidity ! As well might the nurseryman ridicule the grain-grower 

 because the grain-grower cannot distinguish a Baldwin Seedling from 

 a High-top Sweeting; or the grain grower the nurseryman, because 

 the nurseryman cannot tell Mediterranean from Tea wheat, or Club 

 from Fife. I do, however, entertain an abiding hope that by the pres- 

 ent very general and praiseworthy movement toward the populari- 

 zation of natural history, and by the dissemination of Entomological 

 Reports, a better knowledge of this practically important subject 

 will soon exist in the community. Our farmers will then, not so often 

 wage a war of extermination against their best friends, the cannibal 

 and parasitic insects, while they overlook and neglect the very plant- 

 feeders which are doing all the damage, and upon which the others 

 are feeding in the very manner in which a Wise Providence has ap- 

 pointed them to adopt." 



RE C APITUL ATION . 



While there is much more on this interesting subject to be said, 

 the length this article has already assumed prompts me to bring it to 

 a close ; and I will recapitulate by giving a condensed statement of 

 the more important facts relating to the Chinch Bug: 



The Chinch Bug injures by suction, not by biting.— It winters in 

 the perfect winged state, mostly dormant, principally in the old rub- 

 bish, such as dead leaves, corn-shucks, corn-stalks, and under weeds 

 and prostrate fence rails and boards that generally surround grain 

 fields; also, in whatever other sheltered situation it can get in adja- 

 cent woods : hence the importance of fighting the pest in the Winter 

 time, either by trapping it under boards laid for the purpose, or by 

 burning it with its afore-mentioned shelter. Such burning will not 

 destroy all the dormant hosts, but will practically render the species 

 harmless— especially where whole communities combine to practice 

 it.— It issues from its Winter quarters during the first balmy days of 

 Spring, when those females which were impregnated the previous Fall, 

 and which are most apt to survive the Winter, commence ovipositing 

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