. The American entomologist. Entomology. THE AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 207 StraiTberry Bugs—Jno. M. Pearson, Godfreij, Ills.—The highly poUshed black insects, about one- tenth of an inch in length and three-fourths as broad as they are long, wliicli have lately swarmed on the strawberries around Alton, are the Corimelmna pulicaria of Germar., and may be known in English by the name of the Flea-like Corimelajna. They are not Chinch Bugs as some of the members of your society supposed. At Figure 138 of our present number, a good cut of the Chinch Bug is given, and you will at once perceive the diff
. The American entomologist. Entomology. THE AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 207 StraiTberry Bugs—Jno. M. Pearson, Godfreij, Ills.—The highly poUshed black insects, about one- tenth of an inch in length and three-fourths as broad as they are long, wliicli have lately swarmed on the strawberries around Alton, are the Corimelmna pulicaria of Germar., and may be known in English by the name of the Flea-like Corimelajna. They are not Chinch Bugs as some of the members of your society supposed. At Figure 138 of our present number, a good cut of the Chinch Bug is given, and you will at once perceive the difference upon comparing that figure with yoiu- Straw- berry insect. This last, hke the Chinch Bug, is a true bug (order IJeteroptera) but belongs in a very different family (), all the insects of which are distinguished by the great size of the scutel. In the Chinch Bug the scutel lorms that little triangular picic (seethe Figure) innnediately behind the thorax, while in the Strawberry bug it covers the whole body, the hemelytra lonuing but a pale dirty yellow stripe alon^; cacli side. We ourselves (bund these bugs quite abun- dant on strawberries last spring, puncturing the stem and thus causing cither blossom or fruit to wilt. It i^ likewise destructive to that plant in Canada, judgiii^c from a description given in the Canada Farmer loi August 1st, 1807. A year or two ago, it;was sent us with an account of its having ruined a crop of raspbu- ries; and this year we receive it from Mr. G. Wilgus of Richview, III., with an account of its infesting both cherry and (luince. "On cherry," as hejnforms us, "it occurs ill very large numbers, causing the stems of the young fruit to wilt and shrivel. It also attacks the blossoms and leaves, but seems to do most dam- age on ; Ilencc it may be considered as a pretty general feeder. In the summertime it maybe ?found in very large numbers upon a variety of wild flowers, and it is also very injurious
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