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the reach, of the bug. (See also Squash Bug.) Besides these, 

 cucumbers are sometimes troubled with a small jumping bee- 

 tle, like the turnip bug, the Haltica cucumeris, for which the 

 proposed remedies for the striped bug may be found really use- 

 ful, particularly soot, ashes, or snuff. 



PEA BUG OR WEEVIL. 

 BRUCHUS PISI. 



This is the small brown bug sometimes so abundant in 

 dried peas, and is produced from an 

 egg which generally is deposited in 

 each of the young peas by puncturing 

 them through the pod while it is yet 

 tender. Occasionally, however, in very 

 large peas, two or even three punctures * 



will be found on the same side, the > natural * ize ; &, magnified, 

 operator having mismeasured distance ; and sometimes they 

 are punctured on both sides, probably by different individuals, 

 the last one unaware that the dwelling was already tenanted. 



Nearly on the opposite side from the round hole by which 

 the bug finds its outlet from the ripe seed a small brown spot 

 will usually, if not always, be found upon the pea, which is the 

 healed puncture where the egg was deposited. 



The insect makes these punctures along the side of the pod, 

 and the general course taken by the young worm being more 

 or less directly to the opposite side, it becomes apparent that 

 the eye of the pea, which is at the point of attachment to the ' 

 pod at its inner or front edge, will seldom be injured ; but, 

 notwithstanding this, peas which the bug has eaten should not 

 be used for seed, especially in a cold spring, when, not vegetat- 

 ing quickly, they are apt to water-soak and rot. 



The pea bug belongs to warm weather and localities. It is 

 unknown in high northern latitudes, and any where north of 

 40 it is avoided by selecting an elevated region, or by put- 

 ting off sowing until the latter end of May. 



The crow blackbird and the Baltimore oriole are said to 

 seek the young worms, but are of no practical importance as 

 destroyers. 



