When you've bucked flies and bugs as long as I have, you'll be less 'peart about it.
All sorts of insects, including lightning-bugs as big as incandescent lights, were singing and flying about, causing the men to put their hands and faces through a most unique series of gymnastics.
His eyes insisted on turning to where Miss Sally moved about the cloth spread on the grass; the tablecloth on which green bugs and black bugs and brown bugs were already parading, as bugs always do at a picnic.
The fly-bugs also, such as the Reduvius personatus, so common in France, and the R.
Borneo and Java, attack man, although their especial habit is to attack and destroy other insects, including bugs themselves.
Fleas andbugs come under Van Beneden’s category of free parasites.
Boats, like black bugs in the water, came and went between them and the others.
A little white room, unevenly panelled, the silver candlesticks and yellow flames fantastically reflected in the mirrors between the deep windows, and the moths and June-bugs tilting at the lights.
Moths burned in the gas flames, and June bugs hummed in at the high windows and tilted against the walls.
In August of 1951, I introduced adult bugs into a cage placed over a branch of an unsprayed pecan tree for the purpose of determining whether there was possibly a third brood.
Pests include spittle bugs, stink bugs and other insects that attack young leaves and tender growth.
Tarzan watched them lazily from above as they scratched in the rotting loam for bugs and beetles and grubworms, or sought among the branches of the trees for eggs and young birds, or luscious caterpillars.
Of course he did not pronounce God as you or I would pronounce His name, for Tarzan knew naught of the spoken language of his English forbears; but he had a name of his own invention for each of the little bugs which constituted the alphabet.
By much labor and through the medium of infinite patience as well, he had, without assistance, discovered the purpose of the little bugs which ran riot upon the printed pages.
Twice he brushed the back of a hand smartly across his eyes; but only for a moment could he bring the bugs back to coherent and intelligible form.
Another fact which attracted him to this word was the number of he-bugs which figured in its definition--Supreme Deity, Creator or Upholder of the Universe.
It was on this trip that the boys became acquainted with Professor Uriah Snodgrass, a learned man whose hobby was collecting bugs and butterflies.
A sort of commission to travel for them into all parts of the world after curious bugs and relics.
As for the professor, once the first shock of being lost had passed, he became so much interested in catching some curious bugs that he paid little attention to the boys.
It can be used in Bordeaux and lime-sulphur mixtures, thus killing two bugs with one spray.
The old bugs may be trapped under boards and by early vines.
Paris green:--This is the standard remedy for eating-bugs and worms.
The bugs are worse on the disposition than they are on the lungs, aren't they?
He is such a grouch that he gives the bugs a regular bed to sleep in.
They destroy many bugs and caterpillars and eat weed-seeds that might trouble the fruit-grower more than the missing cherries.
These birds depend for food upon seeds and bugs or worms they scratch out of the ground.
The Bed A metal bedstead is better than a wooden one, as wood holds odors and moisture, and is apt to have more cracks and crevices for germs or bugs to lodge in.
It should be white, for then it shows when it needs cleaning and bedbugs keep away from white surfaces which show them up easily.
There are rats and fleas on board, but neither bugs nor cockroaches.
I got out into a little cangia but it swarmed with bugs and wasps, and was too dirty, so I moved yesterday into a good boat belonging to a dragoman, and hope to be back in my own by Sunday.
When the surface is considerably agitated there are no skaters nor water-bugs on it, but apparently, in calm days, they leave their havens and adventurously glide forth from the shore by short impulses till they completely cover it.
I'd pin the butterflies and bugs round the sides; they will be quite safe there, and leave room for the heavy things below.
You don't care for money; all you want is your old bugs and things," and Nat laughed, incredulously.
One day the rice was so poor and so full of bugs that we refused to accept it and held an indignation meeting.
The next day they sent in the same rice, and as the petition did not satisfy our hunger we ate it, bugs and all, to keep from starving.
I think I've housed most West African bugs in my time.
Shows the bugsmust have got into my brain too, doesn't it?
Things that are good to eat always have bugs and worms on them, while tansy and castor-oil go through life unmolested.
A small delegation of bugs which deal mostly with kale came into the garden one day, looked at the picture on the discarded paper, then examined what had crawled out through the ground and went away.
Pretty soon I discovered that they had no bugs which seemed to go with them, and then I knew they were weeds.
It was generally pleasant on the ground, and the bugs and caterpillars and worms, as they crawled about at her roots, often told her very interesting things about their families and their troubles.
They always had plenty of fat juicy flies and water-bugs for their dinners, and after a while we put some silver shiners and tiny minnows into the pool, so that they would have fishes to play with as well as other frogs.
It was war on bugs and spiders this morning; war to the knife, or rather, to the broom.
Somehow the sight of bugs being killed was upsetting to her just now.
Bugs and spiders did not count against one in tent inspection, being looked upon as circumstances over which one had no control; hence no one ever bothered about them.
You see," he explained, "stink-bugs like to keep to themselves.
If there was one thing on which Bugs Butler prided himself, it was footwork.
His wild swings had tired Bugs Butler, and with fatigue prudence returned to him.
I guess what's happened is, he's gone up to take a look at Bugs Butler," he said.
I'm just a cat, and I say I wish your beast of a Bugs Butler had perished miserably.
Can Bugs Butler make a hundred and thirty-five ringside without being weak?
It was the fact that Bugs Butler was lowering himself to extend his powers against a sparring-partner that shocked Mr. Burrowes.
The manager bustled off, and Bugs Butler, with a final smirk, left Sally and dived under the ropes.
Bugs Butler measured his distance, and Sally shut her eyes.
Yet here she was, in Bugs Butler's training-camp at White Plains, in the State of New York, speaking softly in his ear without even going through the preliminary of tapping him on the shoulder to advertise her presence.
Well, the potato bugs used to come into the store in the spring and look over Si's books to see who'd been buying potato seed.
Why whar I come from the potato bugs come right into the kitchen, open the oven doors and yank the red hot baking potatoes out of the stove.
One old fellow said he had seen twenty potato bugs on one stalk.
