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INSECTS INFESTING PARSLEY, CARROTS AND 

 PARSNIPS. 



The Parsley- Worm (Papilio asterian Chap. 234 



CHAPTER CCXXXIV. 



The Parsley Worm. 



( Papilio astcrias. — Fabricius. ) 



Order, Lepidoptera ; Family, Papilionidje. 



[Feeding upon the leaves and blossoms of parslej^, carrots, 

 parsnips, etc. ; a whitish or greenish-yellow sixteen-legged 

 worm, banded with black and marked with black and yellow 

 spots.] 



Fig. 844. — Parsley Worm — col- 

 ors, greenish-yellow and black. 



When fully grown, this worm 

 (Fig. 844) is about one inch and 

 six lines long. Before assuming the pupa form it suspends 

 itself l)y the hind feet and a transverse loop of silken threads 

 passed around the fore part of the body. 



Fig. 345. 



Fig. 345. — Asterias Butterfly — colors, black, blue and yel- 

 low. 



