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The Bulletin. 



Bud Worms. 1 



The False Bud Worm: is Also Known as "Boll Wobm," "Cobn Ear Worm," 

 "Tomato Fruit Worm," "Shatter Worm," etc. 



(Order Lepidoptera.) 



Two distinctly different insects are confused under the name of Bud 

 Worm. By far the most common of these two is the Cotton Boll Worm 

 or False Bud Worm of Tobacco. This insect is a common pest of corn, 

 cotton, and tomatoes. The other insect which we will call the Tobacco 



Fig. 21.— Tobacco Seed Pods injured by Tobacco BudjWorms, reduced. 

 (Photograph by the author.) 



Bud Worm, while not generally so common as the preceding, is by 

 far the more destructive insect to tobacco in the field. 



Both of these insects injure tobacco by working in the bud or un- 

 folded leaf of the tobacco plant or by eating the seed pods of tobacco. 

 (Fig. 21.) When these insects work in the bud of the tobacco they 



tChloridea virescens; Eeliothis obsoleta. 



