The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1848-08-18
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Lice

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!. we'll known to every
!. moment that cotton begins
Y IL oil, y the time when u
.,risd into tho yin.hOass, ! :
lnfss II some insect lhavo
= I. earIIsst assailants with
IN ,bat they often reign
N being converted mo &C., Gs,
I'D. before The most Oea =
Il nausea and disgust. By the.
enlightened planters, the
X. cause Of any evil, Is al
" towards d remedy" II iS
\ insis. upon the importance
air.ssts ii Madison county,
IN sure no better proof 70
\ III c%onfounding Ofthe cotton
5,Is such great and extensive
.stlop fields for The last tiSe Or
\, ergs and larvae Of the ants
.,,,sss have occurred as you
,.pr,s If ny remarks Ignorance
srtep occasions the planters to.
I, .asrpies, % that when we would
5harn by destroying those that
M. The Importance of insects
,,nter both as sources OF good
InIb,r valid reason, which IN the
rsdss The study of Natural His"
I'll II importance 70 every planter
f, j pOmote the cause OF agricu |
@8 . LAP
IDLY outcry Of the ignorant VuI-
n. study Of insects "mu't DO e
uut / shalt not stop to notice-for
rme 10 know, as pr, Paly has
la he production Of beauty was
he Crealor's mind in painting a
rinauddipg a beetle, 90 in giving
i he human frame" In the elo-
,uaps of one who made Natural
SauIa object Of study "may we
rytus unbalanced upon an Apollo
II, Of Venus de Medicis, or upon
Esydudngs Of Raphael OF a Titan,
m We behold with ecstasy sculP-
lpgodueed by the chisel Of the
E,,nd die inimi'able tints laid or, by
because an insect is the subject, be
b tsn and ridiCule."
FWH-
\ Insect that | shall notice most use
|pJng The eggs and larvae of the
| called with us, lady-bug, in Fri nee
,ad IN Great Britain lady-bird, (Coc-
alhsse insects belong to the gen US
] which means a lions whelP, and
Ingit such a name, for their young
tti 4 their size, are as sanguine and
ahe most savage besto Of prey" DR..
'Aslhe locust eating thrush accom-
! locust, 50 the Iady.biids seem to
'Phidsf.' Ketby and Spence.
shybelna,e in tie imago state,
a5be found on the cotton plants by
tNs days as early as the aphides.
VI every other insect, its first object
llai on which the eggs and larvae
ides are thickly set, here it deposits
eight 70 twelve in number. At
uluslOn from the egg it is a worm
PIIler, crawling upon six legs, color
with six or eight yellow spots, ii
lhs larvae state twelve or fifteen
ny be seen greedily devouriug the
Of the lice, though so small
imPercoptible without the aid
Now, Nh, Editor, it has
q nooiedquestion with planters
In'l i1e lady-bugs generate or feed
y \ ls contended by many that
'ls lAsm, Had they known its his
8lagl lAey would have been in no
wy matter, since no insects are
Of aPhides, than the larvae
l'opg ! have often TAX en- one Of
animals, when four or FIVE days
Z Slalk Of cotton on which the
laossf previously eaten and put ii
'et with them, and it would
'es' another in quick succession
'a'Sil these insects are known to
3s'' he eottOn-lice, is very aston
ia'Oesll would seem their services
''ole - ne cotton field. In France
'ls'l g sacred to the Virgin, and
,'Sne' : Dieu, Betes do Ia vieuge,
Dl''aln, commiseration for the
: mo'aer, whose house is on FIRE
|, a01ne' lnsures them kind treat
tae hop growers in Great
~ Y be sensible Of their services
INV nlfe boys TO prevent birds
,'ng lhsn. Fol- the Information ii
naSad' will say, from two expe-
!. ..lla' = tho opinion, that nothing
! '9an . clear i favorite plant q
X. pl'slng upon II some two Or three
'oag; these may be collected
W W. q almost any time.
i .ssqsanon flies, whose larvae are
\ III up0l the living bodies Of Other
4. q . color, size and form,
NM, Ssla 2 be 50 small, " that the
a0' bigger than a pins head
uagnll0de to nouriah TWO d