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THE MONTHLY BULLETIN. 



Poisoned bait, composed of a pound of paris green to forty or fifty 

 ponnds of bran and sweetened either with cheap sugar or molasses 



Fig. 141. — Pupse into which tlie army worms 

 transform after they have burrowed into the 

 ground. The adult moths come from these chrys- 

 alids; a, natural size. (U. S. Dept. Agrcl.) 



with sufficient water added to make a stitf mash, placed in the 

 infested areas, will kill countless numbers of the worms. 



Pig. 142. — The red-tailed Tachina fly (Winthemia i-pustiilata Fab.) 

 which is an effective parasite of cutworms and army worms ; a, fly 

 natural size ; b, fly much enlarged ; c, army worm upon which the fly 

 has laid eggs, natural size ; d, parasitized army worms, enlarged. 

 (U. S. Dept. Agrcl.) 



