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a plant so protected. In the melon and cucumber fields, use berry boxes 

 without the bottoms. They may be purchased cheaply in knock-down 

 form. 



Several species of cut-worms have the habit of climbing, and are 

 spoken of as climbing cut worms. They work on the buds of fruit trees 

 early in the spring. For a discussion of these pests see Special Bulletiu 

 No. 24 of this station. 



INSECTS AFFECTING THE CORN IN THE COB. 

 Corn Ear-worm or Cotton Boll-worm (HeUoththis ohscura) . 



Next to cut-worms, in point of importance to sweet-corn, comes the 

 corn ear-worm, known also as the tomato-fruit-worm and in the South 

 as the boll-worm. When our corn is "in the milk'' one often finds, work- 



Fig. 61. — Work of corn-ear worm. From J. B. Smith, State Exp. Station of New Jersey. 



ing either in the silk or in the soft kernels inside the 

 almost hairless caterpillars or "worms" which tunnel 

 part of the juicy kerjiels, and leaving a disgusting, 

 that ruins the entire ear for the market. When the 

 hard for food, or where there are too many larvae in 

 one another. When full grown they are striped longit 

 be greenish or reddish in color and about one and 

 long. The pupal stage is passed underground, the 

 from the pupa, being dull, dirty-yellowish in color wi 

 just inside the border of the hind-wings. 



ear, one or more 

 about, destroying 

 blackened furrow 

 corn becomes too 



one ear, they eat 

 udinally and may 

 one-fourth inches 

 moth that comes 

 th a darker band 



