 Would it be believed that the larvae of an insect, or fly, no larger than a grain of rice, should silently, and in one season, destroy some thousand acres of pine trees, many of them from two to three feet in diameter, and a hundred and fifty feet high...  A Report on the Insects of Massachusetts, Injurious to Vegetation - Page 63by Thaddeus William Harris, Massachusetts. Zoological and Botanical Survey - 1841 - 459 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alexander Wilson, George Ord - 1828 - 464 pages
...perpetrators of the destruction of his timber. Would it be believed that the larvae of an insect, or fly, no larger than a grain of rice, should silently, and in one season, destroy some thousand acres of pine-trees, many of them from two to three feet in diameter, and a hundred and fifty feet high ! Yet... | |
 | 1819 - 424 pages
...Йк! destruction of his timber, W«ul<l it be believed that the larvae of an insect, or fly, no longer than a grain of rice, should silently, and in one season, destroy some 14 thousand acres of pine trees, many of them from two to three feet in diameter, and a hundred and... | |
 | 1820 - 422 pages
...the destruction of his timber. Would it be believed that the larvae of an insect, or fly, no longer than a grain of rice, should silently, and in one season, destroy some thousand acres of pine-trees, many of them from two to three feet in diameter, and a hundred and fifty feet high 1 Yet,... | |
 | 1826 - 376 pages
...of the destruction of his timber. Would it be believed that the larva; of an insect or fly no longer than a grain of rice, should silently and in one season,...high ? Yet, whoever passes along the high road from George Town to Charleston, ih South Carolina, about twenty miles from the former place, can have striking... | |
 | 1821 - 498 pages
...than a grain of rice, should silently,and in one season, destroy some thousand acres of pine-trees, many of them from two to three feet in diameter, and a hundred and fifty feet high ? Yet, whoever pusses along the high road from Georgetown to Charleston, in SouthCarolina, about 20 miles from the... | |
 | Pierce Egan - 1823 - 300 pages
...perpetrators of the destruction of his timber. Would it be believed that the larvae of an insect, or fly, no larger than a grain of rice should silently, and in...whoever passes along the high road from Georgetown and Charlestown, in South Carolina, about twenty miles from the former place, can have striking and... | |
 | Reuben Percy - 1826 - 380 pages
...diameter, and a hundred and fifty feet high ? Yet, whoever passes along the high road, from George Town to Charleston, in South Carolina, about twenty miles...place, can have striking and melancholy proofs of this fact. In some places, the whole .woods as far you can see around you, are dead, stripped of the... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - 1831 - 620 pages
...the ivory-billed wood-pecker, says, " Would it be believed that the larvae of an insect, or fly, no larger than a grain of rice, should silently, and...many of them from two to three feet in diameter, and 150 feet high ? In some places, the whole woods, as far as you can see around you, are dead, stripped... | |
 | James Rennie - 1830 - 442 pages
...the ivory-billed woodpecker, says, " would it be believed that the larvae of an insect, or fly, no larger than a grain of rice, should silently, and...feet in diameter, and a hundred and fifty feet high ? In some places the whole woods, as far as you can see around you, are dead, stripped of the bark,... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, George Ord, William Maxwell Hetherington - 1831 - 426 pages
...perpetrators of the destruction of his timber. Would it be believed that the larva; of an insect, or fly, no larger than a grain of rice, should silently, and...place, can have striking and melancholy proofs of this fact. la some places In looking over the accounts given of the ivorybilled woodpecker by the naturalists... | |
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