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dates, but hold reasonably well as far south as Mississippi. As just 
stated, the greatest damage done by this insect is by the August 
brood, when it enters the rolled-up leaves or 
bud of the plant. In September and October 
the next generation of caterpillars is found 
boring into the seed pod and occasionally 
into the flower stem. We have received the 
insect at various dates from July 10 to the 
end of August from Virginia, Georgia, Ala- 
bama, and Mississippi. The worst account 
of damage which has come to us was re- 
ceived in July, 
1888, from Mr. 
J. S. Barnwell, 
of Darien, Ga., 
who said that in 
general this bud 
worm damaged 
his tobacco more 
than the horn 
worm. When 
young it occur- 

Fig. 10.—Work of young false bud 
worm—reduced (original). 







Fig. 9—Work of full-grown 
false bud worm in flower 
stem—reduced (original. ) 
red abundantly in the buds and ate so 
many holes through the young leaves as 
to render them unfit for wrappers. 
The caterpillars of the last fall genera- 
tion enter the ground and hiber- 
nate as pupe. The insect has 
several other food plants aside 
from cotton, but its most abun- 
dant food in the South is the weed 
known as ground cherry (Physalis 
viscosa). It has been found on 
several solanaceous weeds, as well ?™ 
as upon cultivated geranium. 
The species which we have called 
the false bud worm (fig. 8) is the 
same caterpillar which, when oc- 
curring upon cotton, is called the 
‘*eotton boll worm;” upon tomato, 
the ‘‘tomato fruit‘worm,” and 
upon corn, the ‘‘corn-ear worm.” 
Itisthe larva of Heliothis armiger, 
a cosmopolitan species of varied 
food habits, and which, as its dif- 

Fia. 11.—Work of false bud worm in seed pods— 
reduced (original). 
ferent popular names denote, has a destructive propensity for boring 
into anything like a pod. Fortunately, tobacco is not a preferred 
