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rNSECTS INFESTING CORN. 



for wire-worms. They can easily be distinguished from the 

 latter by having one or more pairs of legs to each segment of 

 the body, whereas the true wire-worms have a pair of legs 

 attached to the first three segments only, the remaining seg- 

 ments being destitute of legs ; compare Figs. 283 and 284. On 

 roots of trees, use Remedy No. 59 ; on roots of cereals, etc.. No. 

 55, A. 



Remedy. — Use No. oo. 



CHAPTER CXCIV. 



Cut-worms. (Cal.) 



Order, Lepidopteka ; Family, Noctuid.e. 



[Feeding upon tlie root.s of corn, melons, cabbages, etc., 

 usfually severin<j: tlic plants; or ascending fruit trees, grape- 

 vines, rosebushes, etc., and devouring the buds ; a naked, 

 greasy looking sixteen-legged caterpillar or worm.] 



Fi<?. 285. 



Fitr. '2,%. 



Fig. 285. — W-marked Cut-worm (A(irotif< clandestina) — 

 color, ash-gray and black or brown. 



Fig. 286. — Glassy Cut-worm (Hadeaa dcrastator) ; tlie lower 

 figure represents one 'of the middle segments of its body 

 enlarged — color, pale green. 



Fig. 287.— Cut-worm and ^^S- 287. 



Moth [Maincstra renigera) ; 

 at the left the moth (known 

 as the Figure 8 Minor 

 Moth) — color, dark gray; 

 at the right the worm 

 (called the White Bristly Cut-wunnj — color, yellowish gray. 



