Bug of temperate regions that infests especially beds and feeds on human blood.
1Yes, they introduce diseased chinch bugs into the grain fields with the healthy ones.
2In summer they eat Colorado potato beetles, chinch-bugs, cotton boll-weevils, squash-beetles, grasshoppers and cutworms.
3There are a great many bugs injurious to vegetation, among them the little chinch bugs.
4The chinch-bug is responsible for the loss of five per cent., or one bushel out of every twenty.
5I ain't no pulpit chinch.
6Ned says he can guess what remedy the people apply to the healthy chinch bugs that are eating their grain.
7The chinch bugs might bother everyone else, but Martin seemed to be able to guard against them with fair success.
8Almost equally important is the damage wrought by the chinch-bug, which is also one of the greatest pests in wheat and oats.
9If the drought comes, or the flood, or the chinch-bug, or the brown-tailed moth, you may find yourself floundering in the mulligatawney.
10He called a chinch bug a Rhyparochromus, but he saddled his horse without a blanket and put bakin' powder in the sour-dough.
11The village boys were often shorn almost bald, because of lice and chinch bugs that lived inside the walls of the company houses.
12In fierce, uncontrollable and pitiless floods to drown the crops that had been spared by the chinch bugs, the grasshoppers and the Hot Winds.
13The Chinch bug begins its terrible ravages in the wheat fields.
14Chinch bugs destroy wheat to the value of twenty million dollars a year, and the cotton-boll weevil costs the Southern planters an equal amount.
15Yes, they introduce diseased chinch bugs into the grain fields with the healthy ones.
16In summer they eat Colorado potato beetles, chinch-bugs, cotton boll-weevils, squash-beetles, grasshoppers and cutworms.