THE EARTH'S BOUNTY 



1 to April 30, in Virginia, amounts to 570 

 tons. 



The Bob white is insectivorous, as well as 

 granivorous. Insects are eaten during every 

 month of the year, and amount to 14.93 per 

 cent, of the food for the year as a whole. 

 Furthermore, the proportion of injurious in- 

 sects habitually eaten by the Bobwhite makes 

 its services as a destroyer of insects more val- 

 uable than those of many birds whose per- 

 centage of insect food, though greater, in- 

 cludes a smaller proportion of injurious 

 species. 



Conspicuous among the pests which the 

 Bobwhite destroys are the potato beetle, the 

 twelve-spotted cucumber beetle, the bean-leaf 

 beetle, the squash ladybird, wireworms and 

 their beetles, May beetles, such weevils as the 

 corn-bill bug, the imbricated snout beetle, the 

 clover-leaf weevil, and the Mexican cotton 

 boll-weevil, the striped garden carterpillar, 

 the army worm, the cotton worm, the boll 

 worm, various species of cutworms, the corn- 



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