Earwigs are amazing, under-appreciated insects that can devouring mole crickets and eat up to fifty chinch bugs a night! |
The chinch bugs might bother everyone else, but Martin seemed to be able to guard against them with fair success. |
Found them so popular that he took on chinch bugs at a nickel, and fairly coined money. |
In Orange county, North Carolina, farmers were once obliged to suspend wheat-growing for two years on account of the chinch bug. |
Unfortunately we cannot prevent all of the damage done by chinch bugs, but we can diminish it somewhat by good clean agriculture. |
In 1999, sorghum planted in a field with widely scattered volunteer wheat plants was heavily damaged by chinch bugs. |