Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1904 — BUGS AFTER THE BUGS. [ARTICLE]

BUGS AFTER THE BUGS.

It begins to look now ns though the filthy inseots which have bee 1 attacking the soft maples here foi the past year or two, and not only { marring their bsauty bat seriously threatening their existence, have mit si enemy whioh will pievail against them. Tnese tree lice or insects, form white nests and the maple treJfc whioh are badly effected look like they had beea oat in a big sujw storm where the saow fell up bill, as the white nests are .almost always on the under aid as of the limbs and braaohes. Tney came the leaves to fall early and also oanse much filth to fall under the trees. • The insects whioh threaten them with the retributioa their crimes deserve, were discovered by Prof. Thomas Large. They are a little round blacfc bag, with a bright red spot on eaob side, and are of the laiy-bog or lady-bird order. They are about tbe size of a No. 1 shot, oat in two, but they are as fatal to these maple lioe as a whole shot would be. Prof. Large says they are much the Same kind of a bag ae the California orange growers depended od, to clear ont the scale inseots that were mining their orange orohards, some years ago. Be thicks they will soon become numerous e longh to hold these maple tree pests in obeck.