The chinch bug alone has demonstrated his power to devastate the wheat fields.
If all the little children should learn that they are harmless, I wonder if they could not stop their nurses from killing them.
It is the mounting of the beasts which wears upon one's nerves, and here is where the woman's skill comes, for Mrs. Fairchild learned the art of insect taxidermy and many of the most lifelike photographs in the book were mounted by her.
Its eight stout legs fit it for jumping forward or sideways with great ease.
This is not the photograph of a polar bear, but that of a wolf-spider, with a battery of eight eyes on the top of its head and poison fangs hanging below.
Reports of Observations on the Rocky Mountain Locust and Chinch Bug, together with Extracts from the Correspondence of the Division on Miscellaneous Insects.
The Chinch Bug: A general Summary of its History, Habits, Enemies, and of the Remedies and Preventives to be used against it.
Ned says he can guess what remedy the people apply to the healthy chinchbugs that are eating their grain.
Chinch bugs are not as healthy in some places as in others.
Yes, they introduce diseased chinch bugs into the grain fields with the healthy ones.
The Chinchbug begins its terrible ravages in the wheat fields.
In fierce, uncontrollable and pitiless floods to drown the crops that had been spared by the chinch bugs, the grasshoppers and the Hot Winds.
In the event of a drought there is always some hope of rain; with the hot winds there is hope of a cool spell; while the ravages of the chinch bugs may be checked in two or three ways.
In western Kansas the "blowout" has been as great a source of damage to the wheat fields as the drought orchinch bugs or hot winds.
It takes over twenty-four thousandchinch bugs to weigh one ounce.
A quail killed in a wheat field in Ohio and examined by a government expert had in its craw the remains of over twelve hundred chinch bugs it had eaten that day.
The grain growers are losing over one hundred million dollars a year on account of the work of the chinch bug.
If the silk worms can make silk why should not the chinch bug do something useful instead of wasting his energies in idle pursuits?
Then there was my scheme for inducing the common chinch bug to make chintz curtains.
The chinch bugs might bother everyone else, but Martin seemed to be able to guard against them with fair success.
My father's world was less jocund, was indeed filled with increasing anxiety, for just before harvest time a new and formidable enemy of the wheat appeared in the shape of a minute, ill-smelling insect called the chinch bug.
For two years the crop had been almost wholly destroyed by chinch bugs.
These birds feed on the army worms and cutworms that do so much injury to the young shoots; they also destroy the chinch bug and the grasshopper, both of which feed on cultivated plants.
The chinch bug, attacking as it does such important crops as wheat, corn, and grasses, is a well-known pest.
Unfortunately we cannot prevent all of the damage done by chinch bugs, but we can diminish it somewhat by good clean agriculture.
Write to the Division of Entomology, Washington, for bulletins on the chinch bug.
In Orange county, North Carolina, farmers were once obliged to suspend wheat-growing for two years on account of the chinch bug.
The Hessian fly does more damage to the wheat crop than all other insects combined, and probably ranks next to the chinch bug as the second worst insect enemy of the farmer.
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