Cut- Worm Millers 



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in midsummer, along in about July or August, then 

 they proceed to lay their eggs in the gardens, in 

 the meadows and the ploughed fields. Upon the 

 approach of winter the caterpillars (Fig. 139), 

 curl themselves up and sleep until the next spring 

 down in the earth below frost. 



As soon as the dirt begins to warm up a bit. 



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they work away towards the surface and watch for 

 you or me to set out our potato vines, tomato vines, 

 nice rows of succulent-stemmed cabbage plants, 

 and when darkness comes and hides their dark 

 deeds they destroy all our plants. If you do not 

 plant vegetables the cut-worm is not at all loath to 

 eat your pinks and asters. 



They are thick, dark-colored, disagreeable look- 



