The chinch bug. (Blissus leucopterus Say.)
By: By F.M. Webster ...
Series: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. Bureau of Entomology. Circular -- no. 113
Publisher: Govt. Print. Off.
Published: 1909
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 27
Subjects: Chinch-bug
Description: Of remedial and preventive measures -- Prospects of a future outbreak. pp. 26.
Table of contents: title: Introductiion. pp. 1.; title: Descriptions of the different stages. pp. 2.; title: Seasonal history. pp. 3.; title: Hibernation. pp. 5.; title: Food plants; title: Losses caused by chinch bugs. pp. 7.; title: Natural enemies of the chinch bug; title: The bobwhite or quail. pp. 9.; title: Other bird enemies; title: The frog. pp. 10.; title: Insect enemies; title: Natural checks other than animals. pp. 11.; title: Parasitic fungi. pp. 13.; title: Remedial and preventive measures; title: Destruction of chinch bugs while in hibernation. pp. 14.; title: Sowing decoy plats of attractive grains or grasses in early spring; title: Watchfulness during protracted periods of drought. pp. 16.; title: Difficulty of reaching chinch bugs in meadows. pp. 17.; title: Eliminating chinch bugs from Timothy meadows by crop rotation; title: Utility of kerosene in fighting chinch bugs. pp. 18.; title: Utility of deeply plowed furrows supplemented by the use of kerosene emulsion. pp. 19.; title: The surface and coal-tar method; title: The ridge and coal-tar method. pp. 20.; title: Other barrier methods. pp. 22.; title: The use of furrows without petroleum or coal tar; title: Necessity for preventing chinch bugs from becoming established in fields of wheat and grass. pp. 23.; title: Summary of remedial and preventive measures; title: Prospects of a future outbreak. pp. 26.