The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1841-03-09
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TIE liESSlAN Fly
Dscovery btiieocd 10 h"re bccn m"dc III ,elation tn
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h'"h'oWh, hhu rcn''hS 10 me- ahoN" m"h'h'htd SIN
j"c'. wns subsequently ordered by I'M body To he
published in their Transactions. As however,
SOME lin" viii necessarily olnpse heG'rc The Trans
actions will he published, we have thought that we
could BET ter serve The agricultural readers Of the
Cnhi"e' by rxrr"riina the in formation given in u
journal rorrnily enthorized by the Society IN bc
published hy us Secretaries in nm abridged Erm Il
OF earlier appearance In The proceedings Just print
ed i"i November and Decen,bnr. 1910, we find the
subject mentioned. in some paragraphs of which
we here snIj in copy
"The cominiee, consisting Of Mr. NuitalI, Mr..
lea. md Mr.. Coats, 10 wI,um was referred II com
mnni"nton nv NJ ISIS Murgnrcila H. Morris, On the
C"cid"n'yi, drsIructor The lleSsan Flv, report.
rd in favor of publication which was ordered uccor
dinghy.
"Thc committee express the opinion, that should
the observations Of Miss M"rriS be- Ultimately prov.
cd {" hr correct they wilt evcnurtr in tisdcrnhlc
benefit to the agricultural community and, through
it I" tho public. Miss Morris hcirvc+ she has rs-
lab'i~hcd. tha, the ovum Of This obstructive insect
is deposited by The parent in the seed of The when,
and hoi. ns previously supposed, in the s,nlk or
clum. She has watched The progress Of the nnimnl
since June, 1876, and has satisfied h"rsrlrthnt she
has frequently seen The Inrva within tho seed She
has ais" detected the Iprva vnrinus Stages Of iis
progress, rom the seed To between the body al The
stock aud The shenih of The eavcs.--'n the latter
situation " passes into The pnph naxscrd srnr
According Ia ihc ohscrva,inn Norris the re-
cent, hn'chrd lnrvn renetra,es 80 The centre "r The
straw, where il may he found Of n ,,aic greenish.
white semi Transparent appearance, in form some
what resembling siikwnrm. From one 10 six Of
these have been found AT various heights from the
seed 10 The third joint. They would seem to cnt r
ia" pnpn stale about the first of June,
'This fly was not observed by Miss Morris to in
habit any other plant than wheat
''To. prevent the rnvngcS nr this destroyr, or the
grain il III he proper Ia obtain fresh seed from la
cnlilics in which the ny has NOT made its appear
nuco. BY this means the crop of the following
wear will be uniujnrcd; hui in order i"nvo.d the in
PRODUCTION Of struggling insects of the kind from ad
iaccni fields, il is requisite that Il whole neighbnr
hood should pnrsevere in this rrrruuii"n G'r two
years ar more in succession. This result was "b
rancd, in part, in The Of trials made ny Mr.
Kirk, of Bucks county, Pa, with some seed wheat
from the Nedcrrunean, in aud since The yenrl 81
His first crop free ON The Nv. but gradu-
ally introduce from The dnceni fied and in The
present year The mischief has been considerable.
As Miss Morris suites that the fly has never made
lis Appearance in :Susquehnunah ard iradford coun
lies; seed wheat cree from the fly, might be obtain
cd from those and other ucaiios. ...
"Thccommtee recommend that tho conclusions
of Miss MuriS may he sub iected TO the only Ell.
Glen, ,es,--ynpeatcd observations and trials Of the
p,ccau,ion she I'd Uses"
Believing the nbore be an observation of very
considerable importance, aud sincerely hoping that
repeated trials and examinations NAV confirm lis
correctness have prepared to ;.re>Gr, notice f.,
the Cahuet in order to bring il before the ngrcul.
rural community.
Miss Murriss observations and infercnccs agree
very we'll with what we know al the habits Of ma.
ny insects. Thus they are, MS general rule. mo,
produced until their food is ready i"r them; wh,.
their eggs appear In approach the seeds Of the
p!auts in the power of enduring ioug delay and
some voonc ,rf re they lose their vitality and
riculIy ordeve"pemen,. The eggs of silk
are kept liom various peliods. aud stli re,nin the
Susceptibility Of being hached. How long tbs
power, in some insects, may be capable "t endnr-
ing has not been ascertained but the presumption.
arising from their analogy To seeds, leaves ii by m"
means certain, (unul observations are uadn.) thal
the period may no, he one OF magnitude. The low
a animals are sand by natnrnists 10 approach, in
constitution, tniiCh more nearly
10 the complex being OF their own class;
and this is acknowledged Ia be sirikmgiy exempil
&, d in The instance we have been reci'iug. Same
Il Ing analogous may be perceived IN the instance
OF The common fowl; in which speci"s, Tie eggs
first laid ALLOW ed rennin I'LL enough are aGs
cumu lated Tor the parent 10 commence sning, and
without in any way Iniirins the product
The, hight, aud Justly distinguished American
uaturalis The late Thomas Say. has le't us an en-.
omoI0gcal description Of the llessrn Fly, in the
first volume of The Journal ofthn Phtindelphia a.
oaten,y5 of Natural Sciences. He appears never to
haye identified the insect 10 an earlier portion Of
IT'S life than. the nax.s seed state. Tins, he describes
Tie lava, first state or nhagot o 'he al''nai, rs
resembling ihe papa CIR second state, oxeeptin tho
dal reddish brown coor Of The latter; an'i alleges
lai "whor taken from the cl1n, II Is almost IN.
ert, exhibiting very little motion Ia tho eye =
This was in 1917; aud as Tint eminent wri.er was
principally oecupied ia the la'k' new q 'des'