Excerpt from The Corn Bill-Bugs in Illinois So far as I know the bill-bugs pass the winter in the beetle stage, in the ground, under rubbish, or in other protected situations, and all whose life history has been at all closely observed in Illi nois make their appearance in spring, chiefly in fields in which they have lived as larvae and where they have fed on the roots of grasses the preceding year. As the adult beetles feed in nature on the same plants as their larvae there is little to tempt them to migrate from ...
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Excerpt from The Corn Bill-Bugs in Illinois So far as I know the bill-bugs pass the winter in the beetle stage, in the ground, under rubbish, or in other protected situations, and all whose life history has been at all closely observed in Illi nois make their appearance in spring, chiefly in fields in which they have lived as larvae and where they have fed on the roots of grasses the preceding year. As the adult beetles feed in nature on the same plants as their larvae there is little to tempt them to migrate from one field to an other, and the facts lately collected in this state concerning the previous history of badly injured fields clearly indicate that the beetles pass the winter, as a rule, in the same fields in which they passed through their earlier stages, provided that these fields have been undisturbed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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