| 单词 | potato bug |
| 例句 | And on the under side of the leaf of the potato vine are the bright orange eggs of the potato bug. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z As the train started slowing people were falling out of the cars like potato bugs on a spring plant. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When I tripped on my oversized heel and tumbled backward onto fresh powder, I flailed for a minute like a potato bug on its back. At L.L. Bean’s flagship store, learn to snowshoe against the backdrop of a Maine winter 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z Pestilence descended; dawn found me vacuuming potato bugs in a bathrobe. The seasons of an accidental pandemic hobby farmer 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z I remember taking it to work one day and my secretary said, “That looks like a potato bug.” A 1951 Ford’s Family Tradition 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z The Jerusalem cricket’s more common name is the potato bug but in Spanish it is known as el nino de la tierra – “the child of earth”. The curious case of the alien in the photo – and a mystery that took years to solve 2017-09-30T04:00:00Z No weevil, midge, wire-worm, potato bug, nor, in fact, any farmers’ pests, exist here. Pictures of Canadian Life A Record of Actual Experiences 2012-02-14T03:00:28.520Z Another brought potato bugs; but these too were fish for K'dunk's net. A Little Brother to the Bear and other Animal Stories 2011-12-23T03:00:10.057Z "Perhaps a potato bug ate it off," suggested Jean. Dandelion Cottage 2011-10-29T02:00:16.960Z I remember one year we were studying insects and a student brought in a particularly large potato bug. Teachers in a bind: Tests don?t measure critical thinking 2011-07-26T08:00:00Z The enemy of the egg plant, in growth, is the potato bug, which must be hand-picked or poisoned. Farm Gardening with Hints on Cheap Manuring Quick Cash Crops and How to Grow Them 2011-05-10T02:00:58.433Z Yes, doctor, I swallowed a potato bug be accident, and although I took some Paris green a minute after it don't quiet the disgraceful little baste. Suppers Novel Suggestions for Social Occasions Children as young as nine would thin corn or pluck potato bugs off the dark, leafy plants for 50¢ a day. Frying Pan Farm We’re more troubled with potato bugs than we are with doubts; and you’ll have to learn a lot about us before you really get down to business, I guess.” Hepsey Burke She is out in her front garden picking pansies and potato bugs and other flora and fauna common to the soil. Sundry Accounts Here is a germ with yellow stripes which looks a little like a diminutive potato bug. Montezuma's Castle and Other Weird Tales Marine Corps officials in Washington that they direct their aviators to drop potato bugs over Germany. The Stars and Stripes The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919 He owned a mandolin, called the “potato bug”—a name suggested by the inlaid bowl. The Great White Tribe in Filipinia I do not remember having seen a rat or a weasel on the frontier at that time, and many of the natives had never seen a potato bug or chinch bug or cockroach. Land of the Burnt Thigh Simple as a child, he is, and so gentle that it well-nigh breaks his heart to kill a potato bug. Walter and the Wireless I don't have no idea of carin' whether potato bugs mind bein' picked or not, an' no matter what they said about me before or after their pickin' it 'd be all one to me. Susan Clegg and a Man in the House He declares there are no potato bugs in the Kaiser's realm, and since the "spud" is absolutely essential to Germany's economic welfare, the dropping of "Murphy destroyers" over the Rhine country would quickly terminate hostilities. The Stars and Stripes The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919 Among the common diseases and insect pests that attack the leaves and stems of potato vines are early blight, late blight, brown rot, the flea-beetle, and the potato beetle, or potato bug. Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition I desire also to communicate the cheerful news that there are no potato bugs to make life seem too hard to bear. A Truthful Woman in Southern California But Florence did not reply; instead she picked up the magnifying-glass, and, gazing through it at a pickle jar of mixed beetles, caterpillars, angleworms, and potato bugs, permitted herself to shudder. Gentle Julia On one occasion he took a couple of potato bugs in his “gros” beak as he flew to the nearby woodland, probably a tempting morsel for his spouse’s breakfast. Some Spring Days in Iowa In our experiments, we have found arsenate of lead superior to Paris green as a remedy for potato bugs and all orchard insects. Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916 But say there had been no chickens to "wear the heart and waste the body," how about potato bugs, and caterpillars and huge and gruesome slugs? A String of Amber Beads Some familiar out-door insects which interfere with leaf work are the common potato bug, the green cabbage worm, the rose slug, the elm tree leaf beetle, the canker worm, the tomato worm. The First Book of Farming All beetles, such as the potato bug and June bug, develop from grubs which, like the maggots of flies, are similar to worms in numerous respects. The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope A group of farmers were complaining of the potato bugs' ravages. More Toasts "Is that the only way to drive away the potato bugs?" asked Hal. Daddy Takes Us to the Garden The Daddy Series for Little Folks This was wise because he thus got ahead of the potato bug. The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. In his search for the potato bug he misses the sunset, and disposes of the primrose on the river's brim as a common weed. Our Lady Saint Mary They armed themselves with two large-sized syringes used for showering potato bugs. Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897 Now, if I hear a potato bug whistle a tune on a cornstalk fiddle, I'm going to tell you next about Buddy and Brighteyes going in bathing. Buddy and Brighteyes Pigg Bed Time Stories She talked to the grosbeak in exactly the same manner, as she laid strawberries and potato bugs on the fence for his family. A Girl of the Limberlost The potato bug is another fellow to look out for. The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. The staple remedy for the potato bug is Paris green, 2 pounds or more of poison to 150 to 200 gallons of water, with a little lime. Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) He found that it would not work, and so used it to grind up potato bugs for blisters. Remarks Their striped suits suggested the nomenclature he used "Those potato bugs will do something to blow us to blazes sure'n there's air in a doughnut hole!" When Egypt Went Broke "Tell her you are so friendly with him you feed him potato bugs." A Girl of the Limberlost Toads will eat all sorts of flies, potato bugs, squash bugs, rose bugs, caterpillars, and almost anything that crawls. Three Acres and Liberty Perhaps it will interest that old farmer potato bug. Letters of Franklin K. Lane The potato bugs were a little sluggish at first, but as the spring opened and the ground warmed up they pitched right in, and did first-rate. Remarks As my squash bugs, currant worms, potato bugs, etc., were all doing well without care, I devoted myself almost exclusively to my cut-worms. Remarks She doesn't care for hungry babies and potato bugs. A Girl of the Limberlost Miss Moore also wrote a volume of poems which the farmers of Michigan are still using on their potato bugs. Remarks |
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