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AMEEICAN HOME GARDEX. 



In small quantities seed-peas may be scalded, -while stin-ed, 

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

 dence may perhaps Ije placed in soaking until the peas begin 

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

 ed in plaster (gypsimi), 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 om- care of the offspring for perpetuation. 



SQUASH BUG. 



C E E U S T E I S T I P. 



The squash bug, sometimes erroneously called tiu'tle bug, is 

 Fis. 05. generall}' a dark brown or blackish bug, 



rather quick in its movements, ridged 

 across above the shoulders, the whole 

 having an angular or lined appeai'ance, 

 somewhat resembling a shield with its 

 quarterings. It is a foul, fetid bug, the 

 ^-^^ companion of the striped cucumljer 1:iug 

 in its ravages among vegetable -^Tnes. 

 It is less numerous and less lively, but 

 larger and more destructive in propor- 

 tion to its nimibcrs, eating the leaf more 

 voraciously, and more completely de- 

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

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

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

 It often enters the house in the fall of the veiu'. 



Tvlagnificd nearly twiCi? the 

 DatiU'iil size. 



TURXIP BUG OR FLY. 

 HALTICA XEMOEEjr. 



A little lilack l:iug or beetle, aliout one tenth of an inch in 

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

 liy some called Jumping Jack. In certain seasons the various 

 species of this insect become very numerous upon the young 



