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  HABITS. 
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  21, 
  1903, 
  reports 
  that 
  an 
  observer 
  at 
  Seymour, 
  Ind., 
  found 
  a 
  teaspoon- 
  

   ful 
  in 
  a 
  crop. 
  In 
  a 
  letter 
  to 
  the 
  Department 
  of 
  Agriculture, 
  M. 
  A. 
  

   Page, 
  of 
  Garnett, 
  Kans., 
  says 
  of 
  a 
  bobwhite 
  : 
  ; 
  ' 
  On 
  opening 
  the 
  crop 
  

   we 
  found 
  about 
  two 
  tablespoonfuls 
  of 
  chinch 
  bugs." 
  

  

  The 
  bobwhite 
  also 
  destroys 
  the 
  false 
  chinch 
  bug 
  (Nysius 
  angusta- 
  

   tus), 
  which 
  attacks 
  grapes, 
  strawberries, 
  apples, 
  potatoes, 
  turnips, 
  

   radishes, 
  beets, 
  and 
  cabbages. 
  It 
  eats 
  the 
  tarnished 
  plant 
  bug 
  (Jby'gus 
  

   pratensis), 
  injurious 
  to 
  fruit 
  and 
  truck 
  crops, 
  and 
  stink 
  bugs 
  of 
  more 
  

   than 
  a 
  dozen 
  species, 
  one 
  (Euschistus 
  variolarius) 
  being 
  a 
  pest 
  on 
  

   many 
  garden 
  vegetables. 
  The 
  noninjurious 
  species, 
  particularly 
  

   Thyanta 
  custator, 
  are 
  often 
  eaten, 
  one 
  bird 
  containing 
  30 
  of 
  them. 
  

   More 
  Homoptera 
  (leaf 
  hoppers 
  and 
  other 
  forms) 
  are 
  eaten 
  by 
  bob- 
  

   white 
  than 
  by 
  most 
  other 
  birds. 
  The 
  little 
  leaf 
  hopper 
  (0 
  ncometopia 
  

   lateralis) 
  is 
  especially 
  relished. 
  

  

  LIST 
  OF 
  BUGS 
  EATEN. 
  

  

  Heteroptera 
  : 
  Heteroptera 
  — 
  Continued. 
  

  

  Blissus 
  leucopterus 
  (chinch 
  bug). 
  Coenus 
  deli 
  us. 
  

   Nysius 
  angustatus 
  (false 
  chinch 
  Peribalus 
  limbolarius. 
  

  

  bug). 
  Lygus 
  pratensis 
  (tarnished 
  plant 
  

  

  Euschistus 
  tristigmus 
  (three-spotted 
  bug). 
  

  

  soldier 
  bug). 
  CoHmelwna 
  sp. 
  

  

  Euschistus 
  variolarius. 
  Apiomerus 
  crassipes. 
  

  

  Euschistus 
  sp. 
  Alydus 
  eurinus. 
  

  

  Podisus 
  sp. 
  Corizus 
  sp. 
  

  

  Brochymena 
  sp. 
  Euthoctha 
  galcator. 
  

  

  Nezara 
  hilaris. 
  Scutelleridw 
  (shield-backed 
  bugs). 
  

  

  Mormidea 
  lugens. 
  Homoptera: 
  

  

  Hymenarcys 
  nervosa. 
  Oncometopia 
  lateralis. 
  

  

  Hymenarcys 
  <rqualis. 
  Oncometopia 
  sp. 
  

  

  Thyanta 
  castator. 
  Deltoccphalus 
  sp. 
  

  

  (Ebalus 
  pugnax. 
  Diedrocephala 
  sp. 
  

   Trichopepla 
  semivittata. 
  

  

  GRASSHOPPERS 
  AND 
  ALLIED 
  INSECTS 
  EATEN. 
  

  

  Grasshoppers 
  with 
  a 
  few 
  crickets 
  make 
  3. 
  71 
  per 
  cent 
  of 
  the 
  yearly 
  

   food. 
  In 
  September 
  they 
  contribute 
  11.9 
  per 
  cent. 
  The 
  walking 
  

   stick, 
  singularly 
  like 
  a 
  twig 
  and 
  at 
  times 
  very 
  numerous 
  and 
  injuri- 
  

   ous 
  to 
  foliage 
  of 
  shade 
  and 
  forest 
  trees, 
  has 
  been 
  found 
  in 
  the 
  stomach 
  

   of 
  the 
  bobwhite. 
  Locusts 
  and 
  meadow 
  grasshoppers, 
  both 
  highly 
  

   destructive 
  to 
  vegetation, 
  are 
  favorite 
  articles 
  of 
  diet. 
  The 
  bird 
  

   grasshopper, 
  so 
  called 
  from 
  its 
  size, 
  is 
  occasionally 
  eaten. 
  The 
  de- 
  

   structive 
  grasshoj^pers 
  or 
  locusts 
  of 
  the 
  genus 
  Mela 
  no 
  plus, 
  such 
  as 
  

   J/, 
  atlanis, 
  M. 
  femur-rubrum, 
  or 
  the 
  red-legged 
  grasshopper, 
  and 
  the 
  

   Rocky 
  Mountain 
  locust, 
  form 
  the 
  bulk 
  of 
  the 
  orthopterous 
  food 
  of 
  

   the 
  species. 
  The 
  Rock} 
  r 
  Mountain 
  locust 
  is 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  worst 
  of 
  insect 
  

   pests, 
  and 
  its 
  appearance 
  in 
  large 
  numbers 
  is 
  a 
  calamity. 
  It 
  appears 
  

   in 
  swarms, 
  clouding 
  the 
  sun 
  and 
  covering 
  the 
  earth, 
  sweeping 
  every 
  

  

  