Farmers’ Bulletin 1206. 
and, therefore, is no longer suitable as food for the caterpillars. 
Late corn, however, is damaged considerably by the larve of this 
generation, the percentage of infested ears sometimes running high. 
Tobacco is subject to injury about the same time. In cotton the 
Tip of ear of corn, showing eggs of corn earworm on the silks. In upper 
right, a few eggs on silks, enlarged. (Quaintance and Brues,) 
ING. 5. 
worms bore into the bolls. The fourth generation, which occurs 
only in the most southern portions of the country, is rarely important, 
since food is scarcer and weather conditions less favorable and their 
number usually has been reduced by parasitic enemies. The over- 
