INSECTS INFESTING THE CABBAGE. 



323 



Fig. 327. 



CHAPTER CCXX. 



The Imported Cabbage Worm. 



{PierU rapsL'. — Linnaeus.) 



Order, Lepidopteka ; Family. Pifjrid.e. 



[Feeding upon the cabbage, etc. ; a green sixteen-legged 

 worm dotted with black, and marked on the back with a yel- 

 low line, and with a row of yellow spots on each side of the 

 body.] 



Fig. 327. — Imported Cabbage Worm and 

 Pupa; ((, the worm — color, green with yellow 

 lines ; 6, the pupa — color, greenish or gray. 



\Mien fully grown, this worm (Fig. o27a) is 

 about one inch and three lines long ; it then 

 suspends itself by the hind feet and a trans- 

 verse loop of silken threads passed around the 

 fore part of the body. It soon sheds its skin 

 and appears in the pupa state (Fig. 8276). 

 Several broods are produced in one year, the 

 last brood hibernating in the pu})a state. 



Fig. 328. — Imported Cab- 

 bage Butterfly, male — col- 

 ors, white and black. 



The perfect insect, or but- 

 terfly (Figs. 328 and 329) 

 expands about one inch and 

 nine lines, and is white or, 

 yellowish-white, w i t h the 

 fore-wings tipped with black 



„. „„„ and marked with from one to 



Fig 329. 



three 1)1 ack spots ; the hind 



wings have a l)lackish spot on 



the front margin. 



Fig. 329. — Imported Cab- 

 bage Butterfl3% female — colors, 

 white and black. 



Remedies. — 8 a me as in 

 Chapter CCXIX. 



