Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-07-22
HURTFUL INSECTS,

you would preserve your fruits, protect the
birds. If you would save your crops, you must
t.ady the insects that damage the farmer. Read
IA the Working Farmer for January the report of
Dr.. Harris upon the Rose Bug, with its slender
body, taperlng before and behind, covered with
ashen yellow down, equipped with pale red long
LEGS one OF the greatest scourges Of the nursery
mi garden. II does not conGne its ravages to the
rose, whence it derives its name, but attacks the
grapevine IN myriads; and apple, plum and cher
- trees have not been spared. Other trees, and
even the grass, have been dcyoured sometimes by
this indiscrinlinate feeder, that has its preference,
but yet will not allow Il flstidiDuS squeumishncss
to deprive him OF n dinner.
Birds eat them 10 great numbers, ana barn-door
fowls are fond Of mixing a repast upon them, as
also m3lcs, insects and other animals. If insects
did not destroy each other, all other living things
iAiGht fall before them, and finally not an animal
or plant be left upon the face of the earth.
Plant Lice love company, and so cluster together
in gto1t numbers on the limbs of trees and shrubs.
lAey cEIIe Il sweet liquor or sap extracted from
vegetation, of which Gnts are very fond, and the
latter are often observed to be exceedingly active
ID. ascending and descending plants, which after
y while appear unhealthy. The disease from
whioh they suffer is attributed by many to these
ants, bul tley are perfectly innocent, and never
lDiuca trees az all. Tho Industrious creatures are
ciiy visiting their friends, these p~lantlice, some
tfesscoliel aphides, in order to milk thcm. They
are, in truth the milch cows Of the ants, who
itEtb l.!e.H VIII tue utmost tenloflCSS, which
sasns b be teaipro3atol By the lice for thcy will
dispense their fayors with apparent pleasure by
squeezing out drop after drop Of the precious liq-
uJr OF purpose to crafty the sensual drinkers,
%ssinlinS round in 4 circle 10 imbibo it.
n-the autumn the ants even remove the plant
lice Iram their summer dwellings upon the branch
Is Of sllrubbery, flowers and trees to their own
more comfortable and less exposed domicils in the
ground, whore they take care Of them rs kindly as
they do Of their own offspring, in return for which
they draw from them much Of their own nourish-
mcnt. Thus affecti0late is the relation between
tho aqt and plant iouse. On the ether hand, the
latter do much damage to plants, upon which they
fvcl,in vast numbers, causing them TO pine and
decay. If no friendly ants relieve them of the
SaPcrnbundlnce Of their juices, they will overflow
u?15 tas limbs and toliaSe, or be elected and fall
50 showers around them. This substance is some
times called Ropsy-ien; hut there is another Of the
S}ps name, which consists Of sap oozing from
ica,es. .
Another class Of insects is called LIymouoptera
o5ApGehepding bees, waSps, ants, iehneuulon flies,
tlg3.hef with many ether Insects. go abroad in
the summer time" says DIR. Harris, and you
. will behoid the saw-fly making holes III leaves with
her double key-h4le saws, aud The horn-tail boring
with her augur into the solid trunks &C trees; they
wild not fail 10 observe and admire the untI1Rg
scrutiny Of tbe icbneumonIlies, those httle busy
l1dies. forever on the alert, and pryiHg into every
place 10 ind The lurking estery illar, grub, or mag
got, wherein 10 thrust their eggs THE Curious
swellisgs produced by the ~gall-hies, and inhabited
by their yoNng; She ~elay-eelis Of the mud wasp,
Vrastered against the walls Of our houses, each
one containing a single egg. together with a num-
bsref living spiders, e4ught and Imprisoned sole
iy for The use Of iht litle lnasGn's young, which
thus have constantly before them an ample supply
Of fresh provisions the holes Of the stSmp-wssp,
stored Nith hundreds Of horSsfies, fz tins same
purpose the skill Of the leaf-cutter bee in cat
ting out the senoieircniar pieces OF leaves for her
pnei-aorE aest 1.-THE tlim5ie-shaped shells % the
gsppnd-bee, hidden in clusters, under some loose
a'Son $40 tae fields, made OF little fragments of
tempered clay, and stored with bee-bread, tho
work ot many weeks for the industrious ~Jabrorer;
the Saxen cells made by the housybec, witbou,