A rose-fly.
1800. He suggests that the Rosebug is the pre-existing state of those worms.—Mass. Spy, Oct. 1.
a. 1817. President Fitch shewed me an insect, about an inch in length, of a brown colour, tinged with orange, with two antennæ, or feelers, not unlike a rosebug in form, but in every respect handsomer.—T. Dwight, ‘Travels’ (1821), ii. 398.
1818. Swarms of small yellow bugs, resembling what is called the rose-bug, are making serious ravages among the fruit-trees [in Maryland].—Mass. Spy, June 24.
1842. Rose-bugs, leaf lice, slugs, and every description of insects upon bushes, vines, and flowers.—Phila. Spirit of the Times, July 6.
1849. To-day picked my Isabella grapes. Crop injured by attacks of rose-bug in the spring. Whether Noah was justifiable in preserving this class of insects?—Lowell, Introduction to ‘The Biglow Papers.’
