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Excerpt from Contributions From the Department of Zoology and Entomology: Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts
As a whole they are of considerable economic Importance. Although not usually occurring in sufficient numbers to be noticeably injurious, however, proteus has been reported as having done considerable damage to cranberry swamps in a number of instances. Their food habits have not been very accurately determined. In general they feed on the sap of trees and shrubs, occurring most abundantly in low places. They have been reported as occurring on the ash, oak, pine, alder, butternut, elder, blueberry, cranberry and some of the larger grasses and weeds. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
