6 



1837. 



New England Farmer, v. 16, p. 21. 



Note of the prevalence of the "chintz bug" in Cumberland Co., 

 Ya. (See Howard's Bibliographical List, Eept. [U. S. ] Commiss. 

 Agric, 1887, p. 84) 



1839. 



GiBBES, W. S. — [The Chinch Bug.] (Albany Cultivator, ser. 1, 

 V. 6, p. 103.) 



Writing from South Carolina, Mr. Gibbes mentions the appear- 

 ance "within the last two years" of a pest called in Virginia the 

 chinch bug. He describes the insects as similar in size and shape 

 to the "small black flour weevil," and says they can fly, but do 

 so reluctantly. "They penetrate the stalks and suck them to death." 

 His oat crop was totally destroyed ; early wheat escaped, but the 

 late was injured. After small grain was harvested, corn covered 

 with myriads of the bugs. Burned over part of field first infested. 

 [See Fitch's 2d Eept. Ins. N. Y., p. 278.] 



Jeffreys, J. AV. — ["The Hessian Bug."] (Albany Cultivator, ser. 

 1, V. 6, p. 201.) 



Destroyed crops of wheat in Orange Co., N. C, in 1781. [Not 

 seen. See Fitch's 2d Eept. Ins. N. Y., p. 278.1 



1845. 



Prairie Farmer, Sept., 1845, v. 5, p. 227. 



A Hancock Co. correspondent writes that "some [wheat] fields 

 are a good deal injured by the bug or fly." Migrates from winter 

 wheat to spring wheat, then to oats, and finally to corn. Travels 

 like army worm, but is harder to stop. A neighbor plowed ditch 

 around corn field and put in ashes, but it did no good. 



Prairie Farmer, Oct., 1845, v. 5, p. 254. Chintz Bugs. 



A farmer in Knox Co. reports that "chintz bugs" are eating 

 up wheat and doing extensive damage. "They appear in myriads, 

 defying all endeavors at extermination." 



Prairie Farmer, Nov., 1845, v. 5, p. 269. A Wheat Insect. 



Eeport of the appearance of "a small fly, a little more than 

 one eighth of an inch in size," in AVill Co., 111., upon wheat, caus- 

 ing heads to turn white. Migrates from wlioat to corn — largely 

 destroying the latt(u-— and then to young wheat, whicli it "eats 

 off just beiK'atii the surface of the earth." In all stages of growth. 

 Ground perforated by them. Smell like bed-bug. "The ant-eater 

 ( Clirysopa or roccinnllid? | which preys on tlio jipliids preys nlso 

 on this insect." 



