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Benton, Bellevue, Bossier County, Louisiana
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Prof. Riley exhibits a Colorado potato beetle killed by over 800 mite parasites at a St. Louis Academy of Science meeting. The pest has numerous natural enemies and has migrated eastward across the continent to the Atlantic Ocean. Rocky Mountain News reports hope for its demise.
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The Colorado potato beetle, or potato bug, as we generally call it, has at last found its match in the shape of a mite parasite. Prof. Riley, at a meeting of the St. Louis Academy of Science, exhibited a potato bug which was so completely covered with a mite parasite that the point of a needle could not be placed on any part of the beetle's body without touching one of the parasites. He estimated the number of mites at 800. The bug had been attacked by these enemies and killed.
The potato bug seems to have a number of natural enemies, such as the toad, the crow, the rose-breasted grossbeak and domestic fowls. There are no less than twenty-three insect enemies that attack and kill it. The bug has also been migrating eastward across the continent for several years, until it has now reached the Atlantic ocean.
We hope it may find a watery grave, and let the waves sing its requiem. Rocky Mountain News.
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the potato bug was attacked and killed by mite parasites and has numerous other natural enemies including toads, crows, rose-breasted grossbeaks, domestic fowls, and twenty-three insect species.
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Prof. Riley exhibited a potato bug completely covered by approximately 800 mite parasites at a meeting of the St. Louis Academy of Science, demonstrating how the parasites killed the beetle. The Colorado potato beetle has been migrating eastward across the continent for several years and has reached the Atlantic Ocean.