VEGETABLE INSECTS. 



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LEAP FOLDER {PacJiyzmiclci periusalis) . 



The larvffi of this pyralid moth fold over the edges of the leaves 

 of the egg'phmt, forming a retreat iu wliieli they live aud feed. 

 They attack the plants chiefly when they are young and tender, 

 rarely causing serious damage after the plants liave attained their 

 growth. 



The luoth is gray in eoku- with a wing expanse of about three- 

 fourths of an inch, the wings being marked with transverse, dark, 

 wavy lines. Tliey tleposit small, flat, translucent eggs singly on the 

 leaves wliich hatch in a few days into the caterpillars that do the 



damage. 



The caterpillars when full 

 grown arc about th re. '-fourths 

 of an inch long, and arc yellow- 

 ish-white in color with light red- 

 dish-brown markings. 



Control. — Spraying the 

 plants with arsenate of lead, 

 three pounds in fifty gallons of 

 water- or dusting them with a 

 mixture of equal i)arts of arse- 

 nate of lead and liyd rated or 

 air-slacked littic. will effectively 

 protect them from this insect. 



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{Phlhoriinmi opcnuUHa "• . 



The toi)ac,c<) .split wnr-ii!. so 

 Fig. 51. — Eggplant Lace Buff (Corythaica „ , , i. -. • ■ 



' maiuirha). Adult. called on account of ns injury 



to to])acco, is the cat<Mi)illar of 



a small inconspicuous gray moth. It causes considci-iMc damage 



by raining the leaves of the eggplant, causing llscm to (\yy u\> and so 



seriously weakening the plant. 



The small oval eggs of this species are laid singly on the leaves, 

 and the caterpillar which is greenish in color, tinged with marrou on 

 the thorax, usually begins to tunnel the midrib of Ihe h>af. then 

 branches out and mines the membrane of the leaf. Wlien disturhed 

 Ihe caterpillar reti'cats to its tunnel in the midrib. 



Control. — The affected leaves shoidd be collected and destroyed. 

 or the caterpillars should be destroyed in the mines b> pinchiuy. 



