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i this matter I can only suggest. I should try the pyrethrum 
kerosene, as described above, and if they were of no avail, I 
ild hope to study out its natural history in hopes that that 
Id furnish suggestions that would lead to an effectual cure.” 
Greenish or yellow bugs, sucking the juice from the young 
berries, and causing them to shrivel, harden and become 
knotty. 
*The Tarnished Plant Bug, (Lygus lineolaris , Beauv.) 
* 
Order Hemiptera. Family Capsid.e. 
[Plates XI, XII, and XIII.] 
s an injurious insect, this species is characterized by its wide 
ribution, its general abundance, its relatively constant numbers, 
extraordinary variety of plants upon which it feeds, and its 
itual choice of the freshest, tenderest and most succulent parts 
die species attacked by it. It extends throughout nearly the 
le United States, even ascending mountain ranges above the 
ler line, and is abundant in Canada and British America. It 
no season of incubation, but is to be found alive during every 
of the year, actively feeding except during its period of winter 
•idity, from November to March. While there is some evidence 
ji; it is more abundant in dry than in wet years, these differences 
not remarkable, and bear no comparison to those of the chinch- 
j- and the army worm, and most first-class insect pests. As for 
food plants, the number and extreme differences of the species 
j ited by it are such that it cannot be said to show any marked 
erences, except for the tenderest growing structures from time 
ime available for its sustenance. It shifts its point of attack 
i the leaf and flower-buds of fruit trees, to the young fruit of 
strawberry and the blackberry ; thence to the springing tassels 
orn in the field, and to the foliage of many plants of the flower 
len. Potatoes and cabbages likewise suffer from its attentions, 
from its common occurrence almost everywhere in collections 
le in midsummer, we infer that it doubtless draws for its sup- 
upon many plants which it has not been actually seen to 
cture. 
1 otwithstanding its great abundance and its long known injuries 
isome of the most valuable products of the garden and the 
i iard, it has never been treated or described in our State reports, 
has thus far been merely mentioned incidentally, by Dr. Le Baron, 
as first report. As a consequence, however, of its extraordinary 
idance in strawberry fields last spring, and its apparent con- 
ion with a most serious and hitherto unexplained injury to the 
wberry crop, it has lately come to the front as an injurious 
ies, in a way to make an exhaustive article upon it desirable, 
more so as our experiments for its destruction have resulted 
rably, and we have some recommendations to make, of practical 
j e. 
For summary of this article, see p. 134. 
