THE MONTHLY BULLETIN. 



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Fig. 102. — The European fruit Lecanium, Lecanium corni 

 Bouche. Mature females on apricot. Natural size. (Photo by 

 State Hort. Com.) 



MISCELLANEOUS INSECTS. 

 Cutworms. 



What the Insects Are. — The cutworms are the larvae of moths he- 

 longing to the family NoctuidjB. They usually spend the winter in 

 the ground, either in the resting stage (pup^e) or as well-grown larvae. 



The eggs of the cutworm moths are deposited in grass land, or in 

 land where a crop has been allowed to grow up in grass and weeds in 

 the late summer. The little cutworms, which emerge from the eggs dur- 

 ing August and September, feed on the roots of the available vegetation. 

 Upon the approach of cold weather they burrow deep in the ground, 

 hollowing out small cells in which they hibernate until the following 

 spring. When this time comes they are exceedingly hungry after their 

 fast, and attack any vegetation at hand with great voracity. If the 

 land is planted to some truck crop the cutworms will often do so much 

 damage that the land will have to be replanted. 



