 | Edmund Burke - 1774 - 606 lapas
...I have no doubt but you well know, occafioned by a fmall yellow fly with blue wings, about the fize of a gnat. This blows in the ear of the corn, and produces a worm, almoft invifible to the naked eye ; but being feen through a 5 pocket pocket micro/cope, it appears... | |
 | 1774 - 428 lapas
...(as I have no doubt you well know) occafioned by a fmall yellow fly with blue wings, about the fize of a gnat. This blows in the ear of the corn, and produces a worm, almoft invifible to the naked eye ; but being fcen through a pocket rflicrofcope, it appears a large... | |
 | William Boutcher - 1776 - 342 lapas
...1 have no doubt but you well know, occafioned by a fmall yellow fly with blue wings, about the Iize of a gnat. This blows in the ear of the corn, and produces a worm, almoft invifible to the naked eye ; but, being feen through a pocket fnicrofcope, it appears a large... | |
 | 1793 - 602 lapas
...I have no doubt but you weil know, occafioned by a fmall yellow fly with blue wings, aboct the Cze of a gnat. This blows in the ear of the corn, and produces a worm, almoli invifible to the naked eve; but being feen through a pocket microfcope, it appears a large yellow... | |
 | 1803 - 598 lapas
...wheat, and which they consider as a kind of mildew, ii in fact, as I have no doubt but you well know, occasioned by a small yellow fly with blue wings,...gnat. This blows in the ear of the corn, and produces i worm, almost invisible to the naked eye ; but being seen through a pocket pocket microscope, it appears... | |
 | James Malcolm (land surveyor.) - 1805 - 560 lapas
...any possible risk of hurting the blossoms or fruit. 3. What the farmers call the yellows in wheat, and which they consider as a kind of mildew, is in...invisible to the naked eye ; but being seen through a microscope, it appears a large yellow maggot, of the colour and gloss of amber, and is so prolific,... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1809 - 792 lapas
...without any risk of hurting the blossoms or fruit. 3d. What the fanners call the yellows in wheat, and which they consider as a kind of mildew, is in...about the size of a gnat. This blows in the ear of the com, and produces a worm, almost invisible to the naked eye; but being seen through a pocket microscope,... | |
 | New York State Agricultural Society - 1861 - 926 lapas
...from the yellows and destructive insects," he says — " What the farmers call the yellows in wheat, and which they consider as a kind of mildew, is in fact occasioned by a small yellow fly with (iridescent-) blue wings, about the size of a gnat. This blows in the ear of the corn, and produces... | |
 | Thaddeus William Harris - 1862 - 676 lapas
...published in the " Philosophical Transactions " for 1772. " What the farmers call the yellows in wheat, and which they consider as a kind of mildew, is, in...through a pocket microscope, it appears a large yellow mag-, got, of the color and gloss of amber, and is so prolific that I distinctly counted forty-one... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero - 1868 - 612 lapas
...Philosophical Transactions' for 1772, it is thus noticed: 'What the farmers call the yellows iu wheat, and which they consider as a kind of mildew, is in...yellow fly, with blue wings, about the size of a gnat.' antenna increasing to an intense degree; then bending her body obliquely under her breast, she applied... | |
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What the farmers call the yellows in wheat, and which they consider as a kind of mildew, is, in fact, occasioned by a small yellow fly, with blue wings, about the size of a gnat. 