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VOL. 1. 



ST. LOUIS, MO., OCTOBER, 1868. 



NO. 2. 



PUBLISIIED MONTHLY BY 

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EDITORS : 



BEN.r. D. WALSH Eock Island, 111. 



CItAS. V. ItlLEl', 2130 Clark Are St. Louis, Mo. 



POTATO BUGS. 

 Wc often see paragraphs in the papers, stating' 

 tliat " THE Potato Bug" ha.s been very abund- 

 ant and destructive in such a month and at sudi 



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place, "THE Potato Bug" may be clicckedand 

 controlled by such and such remedies. 



Do the worthy men, who indite tliese notable 

 paragraphs, ever consider for one momcn^, that 

 there are no less than ten distinct si)ecies of 

 bugs, preying upon the potato plant within the 

 limits of the United States? That many of these 

 ten species are coniined within certain geograph- 

 ical limits? That the habits and history of sev- 

 eral of them differ as widely as those of a hog 

 and a horse? That some attack the potato both 

 in the larva state and in the perfect or winged 

 state ; others in the perfect or winged state alone ; 

 and others again in the lai-va state alone? Tliat 



Colors — (ji) green and white; (B) mahogany brown; (C) black, gr.ay and orange. 



and such a place. Accompanying these state- 

 ments, remarks are frequently added, that 

 "THE Potato Bug" is preyed upon by such 

 and such insects, so that we may soon expect to 

 see it swept from off the face of the earth; and 

 that, even if this desirable event should not fuke 



in the case of seven of these insects there is but 

 one single brood every year, while of the re- 

 maining three there are every year from two to 

 three broods, each of them generated by females 

 belonging to the preceding brood? That eight 

 of the teu feed externally upon the leaves and 



