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A B “opelandC of Walshville, and Mr. Frank Morrison, of Bay- 
’ n( i W ent into a wheat field a few days prior to the time I say J 
them ’ and they found the bugs very abundant. On striking the I 
wheat stalks, they would fall from the heads to the ground, from | 
two to five from a single head; and the wheat where this was found, 
was very poor, much poorer than elsewhere on the same farm. Mr. 
A T. Weathers, of Walshville, and other farmers here, noticed le , 
and remarked to me that they were injuring their wheat. 1 rom 
the foregoing we must conclude that it is highly P roba ^ e tliat .^ e 
have hi "this abundant, and wide-spread insect another threatening 
enemy to one of our staple crops. 
To Other Vegetation. 
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Its iniuries to the raspberry were mentioned by Mr. Holcomb, j. 
who have June 10 as the date of its first appearance on the blos- 
soms°under his observation. Riley says that it ‘‘is sometimes so 
plentiful as to render the berries perfectly unsalable by the bed-bug 
aroma which it communicates to them, as well as by sucking out 
their juices. Wherever it occurs, the nauseous flavor which it im¬ 
parts to every berry which it touches will soon make its presence 
manifest though the little scamp may elude ocular detection. He 
remarks in another place that it had been sent him with an account 
of its having ruined a crop of raspbernes. 
Mr. Saunders, in his “Insects Injurious to Fruit,” adds the black¬ 
berry to the list of fruits which it defiles with its disagreeable odoi. 
To the pear the grape, the cherry, and the quince, its mischief con- 
fists chiefly ’in puncturing the tenderest twigs and leaves, and suck¬ 
ing the sap, with the necessary effect to hinder their growth, <j 
perhaps to shrivel and wither the leaves. It occasionally occurs in| 
very large numbers on cherries, “causing the stems of the younf 
fruit to wilt and shrivel. It also attacks the blossoms and leaves 
but seems to do most damage on the stems. On the grape it ha. 
been noted at Alton and at Centralia, a letter from a fruit growe - 
there to Mr. Riley, reporting that he had found all the new growt 
of vines planted the preceding fall covered for a foot or more from. 
the ground with the insects, the vines having, as a consequence, 
unhealthy look. In many instances, also, the under sides of th.|| 
leaves were covered with them. Mr. Holcomb reported that it utterl. 
destroyed the blossoms of Coreopsis in his garden; and it also teed 
and breeds with especial freedom on a prairie plant,—the JNe^ 
Jersey tea (Ceanothus americanus). 
REMEDIES. 
No experiments have been made for the destruction of this sp^ciefl 
and only general recommendations can be offered. Its lar io( 
will probably render it insensible to pyrethrum, and, unfortunately 
the kerosene emulsion is not permissible in the stiawberry e > 
