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BUGS, INSECTS, ETC.— REMEDIES FOR. 



FALL ARMY WORM.— A new worm 

 has for the past few years made its ap- 

 pearance in the West, somewhat resem- 

 bling the Army Worm. Fig. 34 is the 

 true Army Worm, while Fig. 35, is what 

 is called the Fall Army Worm. By exam- 

 ining the two worms, many characteristic 

 differences appear, as will be seen by com- 

 paring Fig. 34, which represents the true 

 Army Worm, with Fig. 35, which repre- 

 sents at a the Fall Army 

 I Worm, natural size,at£ 

 its head magnified, at 

 c a magnified dorsal 

 view of one of the joints, 

 and at d a magnified 

 view of the same. 



It commences its de- 

 predations in August, 

 and devours wheat, 

 oats, corn, turnips, 

 buckwheat, grass, to- 

 matoes, etc. It travels 

 in immense numbers, 

 and destroys whole 

 Fig. 34. fields of grain or grass 



in a very short time. A gentleman who 

 bred the insects, found that they pro- 

 duced at least two broods in a year, some- 

 times three or four. As preventives of its 

 ravages, he recommends to plow ground, 

 intended for fall 

 wheat, early in 

 the season, and 

 to keep it clear 

 from all vege- 

 tation till the 

 wheat is sown ; 

 also to plow late 

 in the season 

 land on which 

 worms have 

 been numerous, 

 in order to kill 

 the pupae and 

 Fig. 35. larvae which 



have entered the ground to spend the 

 winter. When they are infesting grain- 

 fields and covering the ground in large 

 numbers, to roll the land with a heavy 

 roller, which will kill the worms but not 

 injure the grain. 



APPLE TREE TENT-CATERPILLAR, 

 or AMERICAN LACKEY MOTH— What 

 orchardist in the older States of the Union 

 is not familiar with the white web-nests of 

 this caterpillar ? As they glisten in the 



sun, before the trees have put on their full 

 summer dress, these nests, which are then 

 small, speak volumes of the negligence 

 and slovenliness of the owner of the 

 orchard, and tell more truly than almost 

 anything else why it is that he fails and 

 has bad luck with his apple crop. Where 

 ever these nests abound one feels morally 

 certain that the borers, the Codling-moth, 

 and many other enemies of the good old 

 apple tree, have full play to do as they 

 please, unmolested and unnoticed by him 

 whom they are ruining; and when we pass 

 through an orchard with two, three or 

 more "tents" on every tree, we never 

 pity the owner, because there is no insect 

 more easily kept in check. 



The small, bright and glistening web, 

 if unmolested, is soon enlarged until it 

 spreads over whole branches, and the cat- 

 erpillars which were the architects, in time 

 become moths, and lay their eggs for an 

 increased supply of nests another year. 



This insect, in all probability, extends 

 wherever the wild blackberry (Cerasus 

 serotina) is found, as it prefers this tree to 

 all others; and this is probably the reason 

 why the young so often hatch out before 

 the apple buds burst, because, as is well 

 known, the cherry leafs out much earlier. 



