A Treatise on some of the insects injurious to vegetationOrange Judd Company, 1880 - 640 pages |
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Common terms and phrases
abdomen Angoumois antennæ appear August band bark beetles belong beneath black spots blackish body borers broad brood brownish burrow butterfly called canker-worms caterpillars Cecidomyia chrysalis Cicada cocoons color covered crickets cylindrical devour dots dusky edge entomologists expand Fabricius feet females flies fore wings fully grown genus grain grasshoppers ground grubs habits hairs hatched head Hemiptera Hessian fly hind margin hind wings hinder hindmost inch in length inch long injury insects joints July June kinds larva larvæ latter lay their eggs leaves legs limbs Linnæus live locust-tree locusts maggots males Massachusetts middle moth narrow nearly notched numbers ochre-yellow Orthoptera oval pair pale piercer plant-lice plants Plate punctures pupa ravages resemble ring short skin slender sometimes species spines stripe tapering tenths thick thorax transformations transverse trees trunks upper side warts weevil whitish wing-covers yellow yellowish young
Popular passages
Page 69 - road from Georgetown to Charleston, in South Carolina, about twenty miles from the former place, can have striking and melancholy proofs of the fact. In some places the whole woods, as far as you can see around you, are dead, stripped of the bark, their wintry-looking arms and bare trunks bleaching in the
Page 374 - stripe; on the top of the eleventh ring is a little blackish wart; and the belly is dusky. two oblique, straight, dirty white lines. It expands from one inch and a quarter to one inch and a half, or a little more. This moth* closely resembles the
Page 37 - state; the enemy in these stages is beyond our reach, and is subject to the control only of the natural but unknown means appointed by the Author of Nature to keep the insect tribes in check. When they have issued from their subterranean retreats, and have congregated upon our vines, trees, and
Page 167 - green. Indeed, so great was the alarm they occasioned among the people, that days of fasting and prayer were appointed," * on account of the threatened calamity. The southern and western parts of New Hampshire, the northern and eastern parts of Massachusetts, and the southern part of Vermont, have been overrun by swarms of these
Page 567 - by Dr. Isaac Chapman, and published in the fifth volume of the " Memoirs of the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture," and with the more full and equally valuable history of the insect, by Jonathan N. Havens, Esq., contained in the first volume of the " Transactions of the Society for the Promotion of Agriculture,
Page 523 - its favorite plant, so nearly resembles the slug-worm saw-fly as not to be distinguished therefrom except by a practised observer. It is also very much like Selandria barda, Vitis, and pygmcea, but has not the red thorax of these three closely allied species. It is of a deep and shining black color. The first two pairs of
Page 242 - whitewashed. Mr. Knapp thinks that remedies can prove efficacious in removing this evil only upon a small scale, and that when the injury has existed for some time, and extended its influence over the parts of a large tree, it will take its course, and the tree will die. He says that he has removed this
Page 31 - evaporated, while others exhibit the true color and texture of the perfect insect. The grubs devour the roots of grass and of other plants, and in many places the turf may be turned up like a carpet in consequence of the destruction of the roots. The grub* is a white worm
Page 528 - are placed, singly, within little semicircular incisions through the skin of the leaf, and generally on the lower side of it. The flies have not the timidity of many other insects, and are not easily disturbed while laying their eggs. On the fourteenth day afterwards, the eggs begin to hatch,
Page 392 - upper side, and the female (Fig. 187) light reddish brown ; in both, the wings are crossed by a wavy whitish line near the middle, and have a wide clay-colored border, which is marked by a wavy reddish line ; near the tips of the fore wings there is an eye-like black spot within a