The Bulletin. 15 



JSTo doubt some species complete a generation quicker than others, or 

 even in the same species the period may vary according to heat or cold, 

 moisture or dryness. 



Every careful observer knows something of the habits of the adult 

 beetles. The green June-beetle usually appears at Raleigh around the 

 first of July, and may be found abundantly feeding on ripe figs, grapes, 

 peaches, and other fruits. The brown May-beetles are evening or night 

 fliers, and often congregate on trees at dusk, where they eat the foliage. 



REMEDIES. 



Hogs, chickens, and some wild birds are fond of White Grubs, and to 

 some extent can be made use of in combatting these pests. In garden 

 plats or in small patches of corn much can be done by encouraging 

 poultry to follow the plow or the spade, or by merely gathering the Grubs 

 which are exposed and feeding them. 



Cornfields which are known to be badly infested by them can surely 

 be largely freed from them by turning in hogs after the crop is off, espe- 

 cially if by scarcity of feed or otherwise they are encouraged to root 

 diligently. Dr. Forbes reports a case in which 100 pigs destroyed over 

 90 per cent of the Grubs in a badly infested 10-acre field in less than a 

 month. 



As the Grubs are more likely to be abundant and destructive in lands 

 taken from sod, their injuries to corn can in some measure be prevented 

 by putting lands fresh from sod in some other crops for the first year 

 (or, better, two years) by which time the majority of the Grubs will 

 have matured. 



See, also, Rotation (p. 6), Fertilization (p. 7), Cultivation (p. 8). 



CUT-WORMS (Several Species). Order Lepidoptera. Family Noctnidce. 



Description. — Rather stout-bodied, soft, brown, blackish or grayish 

 caterpillars, which remain concealed during the day and do great injury 

 at night by eating off various kinds of young succulent plants at or near 

 the surface of the ground. 



Injury in North Carolina. — Everybody knows what Cut-worms are. 

 So well known and so universally common and destructive are they that 

 their injuries in ordinary seasons excite no particular interest or com- 

 ment. Everybody takes it as a matter of course to lose a part of his 

 cabbage, tomatoes, tobacco, corn, or any other green succulent crop, from 

 their ravages. Like the potato-beetle and the house-fly, people take 

 them so much as a matter of course that many persons give them no 

 serious attention, and the complaints received of their injuries is in no 

 sense a measure of their destructiveness. Most of the complaints that 

 are made refer to their injuries in gardens, or flower-beds. 



