Tooele Transcript Bulletin | 1911-02-17 | Page 3 | Little Bug is Big Eater

LITTLE BUG IS S BIG EATER thirty caterpillar s each day provide only ordinary mel meal for a small green beetle washington the house commute committe an am agriculture has hag discovered that hat the green beetle tie the 1 tree climbing var variety lity will kill abo about ut thirty caterpillars a day in n considering the Brul ul tural appropriation bill the tha committee became curious as to the iha comparative voracity of 0 the beetle and sought light from dr L 0 howard ohio en tom elst of the department scott voiced the opinion of most of the committee that as the caterpillar yata so much larger than the betle one caterpillar o daht to furnish sufficient rations for several days daya doctor howard however told ahe ho committee that the beetle was extraordinarily tra ordinarily voracious and could as ae simi simulate late food readily the fuzzy caterpillar er Is in the beetles bo etlea main dt