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JOUENAL OF AGEICULTUEE OF P. E. 



fuzz. They hateli in about four days into caterpillars that when 

 full grown are about an inch and a quarter long. They are dark 

 gray in color, striped on the sides with a broad yellow band, and 

 marked on the liack with several velvety black patches. 



These eatei-pillars feed voraciously on the foliage, stripping the 

 tender young leaves to the veins and midrib. At the end of about 

 twelve days they enter the soil to pupate, emerging nine days later 

 as adult moths. The moth has a wing expense of al)Out an inch and 

 i} quarter. The front wings and body are a yellowish gray, the hind 

 ^vings white. 



Control. — Spraying the plants with arsenate of lead, three pounds 

 in fifty gallons of water, is an etfective method of control. 



OTHER CHARD INSECTS. 



Pachyzaiuhi bipKiictalis does great damage by webbing the leaves 

 (see Beets, page 280) ; ZincJieuia fascialis also webs the leaves 

 (see Beets, page 280). 



COEN. 



THE SOUTHERN GRASSWORM {Laplty(j}na frufjipenla). 



This insect, 

 known in the 

 United States as 

 the fall army 

 worm, or south- 

 ern grass worm, 

 is by far the 

 worst insect pest 

 of corn in this 

 e u n t ry. So 

 id ant is it 

 1' is almost 



impossible to 

 fi'd a field of 

 ( ■ a that is free 



ri;:,l:l it. 



The very de- 

 structive larva 

 o7- worm secretes itself during the day down among the rolled-up 



leaves of the corn, and at night feeds on the tender, ■ unfolding 



leaves. Its jn-csence is easily detected b>- the chewed appeai'anee 



Fk;. 42. 



-The Southern Grassworni (Ld/ihi/fjma frugiperdn). 

 Moth. (IT. S. Bureau of Entomology.) 



