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1693 S. Dale Pharmacologia 532 Wood-Lice, Sows, or Church-Buggs.

1764 J. Cook Let. 28 July in London Mag. Aug. 407/1 The millepede wine is made by infusing two or three ounces of live church bugs in a quart of rhenish wine, or white Lisbon.

1878 C. Schafer Let. 11 Sept. in 26th Ann. Rep. Children's Aid Soc. (N.Y.) 65 Here in Wisconsin, there is a bug that troubles the grain, we call them ‘Church-bugs’.

1919 F. E. Summers Dere Bill 47 This time it was a church bug had died in one of the notes in her accordian [sic], and she..had to have it fixed.

2001 Sudbury (Ont.) Star (Nexis) 17 July b1 Church bugs are active in many lawns again this year. Keep an eye out for tell-tale brown, irregular sunken patches.