COTTON BUD CATERPlLLAl?. 



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tlie time during which the bliindi should be allowed io grow, after which 

 it should be removed and destroyed with all the caterpillars and chrysalides 

 on it. Some will attack the cotton and then can be removed by plucking* 

 all attacked leaves and burning them. This simple method should be 

 applied when the bliindi is removed, if the latter is used as a trap, or as 

 soon as the pest is seen on the cotton. It serves to destroy the first brood 

 on the cotton and so to check the pest from the beginmng". 



In bad cases of attack on cotton, spraying with lead arseniate is the 

 radical remedy, and where some varieties are grown experimentally, this 

 should be done. Where cotton is grown on a large scale, the pest does 

 little harm as it has so wide a range and does not gather on particular plants. 

 But where cotton is grown on a small scale, there may be so much of the 

 pest as materially to lessen the vigour of the plants, and in this case spray- 

 ing with lead arseniate is necessary. As a rule, the simple remedy of 

 picking off the affected leaves as soon as they are seen is the only remedy 

 necessary. If done in time, it is entirely effective early in the season » 



The moth has a very wide distribution over the East, from West 

 Africa to Siberia and Australia. It is not recorded as a pest outside 

 India, except from East Africa and doubtfully from the Straits Settle- 

 ments. 



The Cotton Bud Caterpillar.i 



A small caterpillar which lives on the top of the shoot of the cottoll 

 plant, binding the leaves together into a small compact knot which turns 



Fig. ho. 



Cot/on Bud\Caler];jiUar. [MafjHified four Hii.es.) 



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FXG. 111. 

 Cotton Bud Caterpillar. {Mayr.ifed fovr tin.es) 



* 80. Fhvcita infusella. Meyr. (Pyralldge.j 



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