Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1903 — Bugs Eat $250,000,000 a Year. [ARTICLE]

Bugs Eat $250,000,000 a Year.

An entomologist estimates that bugs coat this country about $250,000,000 a year. The grasshopper eats up $90,000,000 worth of vegetation if be la feeling well, the Hessian fly $50,000,000, tbe chinch bug $10,000,000 and tbe potato bug $80,000,000 worth. Tobacco worms, moths, squash bugs, beetles, etc., make up tbe rest Entomologists have been studying tbe problem of bug destruction for many years, but progress toward the desired •nd Is not rapid, comments the Minneapolis Times.