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been found effectual against this insect. See page 32 of this 

 work. 



The Striped Bug, or Yelloio Fly. This is a small insect 

 of the coleoptera order, or such as have crustaceous elytra, or 

 wing cases, like the beetle. The elytra of this bug are 

 striped with yellow and black. They prey on the young 

 plants of cucumbers, melons, squashes, and others of the 

 cucurhitacecB species. ' These insects may be considerably 

 thinned by killing them in a dewy morning, when they have 

 not the free use of their wingS; and cannot well escape. But 

 nothing that I have tried has proved so effectual as sifting or 

 sprinkling powdered soot upon the plants when the morning 

 dew remains on them. This forms a bitter covering for the 

 plants, which the bugs cannot endure the taste of.' — Deane 

 ' We would recommend sprinkling the plants with a little 

 sulphur or Scotch snuff.' — Farmer s Assistant. But the surest 

 defence against these insects is, inclosing the plants with a 

 frame, and a muslin or gauze covering. 



For able and scientific descriptions of most of the insects 

 which infest our fields and gardens, we would refer to a ' Dis- 

 course delivered before the Massachusetts Horticultural So- 

 ciety, by Thaddeus W. Harris,' published in the New Eng- 

 land Farmer, vol. xi. p. 204, and following pages. 

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