102 AMERICAN HOME GARDEN. 



In small quantities seed-peas may be scalded, while stirred, 

 before sowing, which is said to destroy the bug ; more confi- 

 dence may perhaps be placed in soaking until the peas begin 

 to vegetate, and this may be safely done if they are then roil- 

 ed in plaster (gypsum), quickly sown upon fresh-plowed land, 

 and covered without being suffered to lie exposed to the sun. 

 Or we may sow only two-year-old seed-peas, keeping them in 

 tight barrels, and sifting out and destroying the weevils in the 

 spring or summer of the first season. It is presumed that the 

 insect deposits eggs only in the pea, and if so, it would seem 

 to be dependent upon our care of the offspring for perpetuation. 



SQUASH BUG. 

 COREUS TRISTIS. 



The squash bug, sometimes erroneously called turtle bug, is 

 Fig. 65. generally a dark brown or blackish bug, 



rather quick in its movements, ridged 

 across above the shoulders, the whole 

 having an angular or lined appearance, 

 somew T hat resembling a shield with its 

 quartering s. It is a foul, fetid bug, the 

 companion of the striped cucumber bug 

 in its ravages among vegetable vines. 

 It is less numerous and less lively, but 

 larger and more destructive in propor- 

 nearly twice the tion to its numbers, eating the leaf more 

 natural size. voraciously, and more completely de- 



stroying the stem. Its eggs are laid in June and July. It is 

 timid and quick to hide, but may be caught by hand in the cool 

 of the morning from any crop which it infests, and crushed. 

 It often enters the house in the fall of the year. 



TURNIP BUG OR FLY. 

 BALTIC A NEMORUM. 



A little black bug or beetle, about one tenth of an inch in 

 length, which springs when disturbed, and on this account is 

 by some called Jumping Jack. In certain seasons the various 

 species of this insect become very numerous upon the young 



