WHEN CORN IS FOX-EARED 



51 



(After CMttenden, Bur. 

 Ent., U.S.Dept.Agr.) 



FIG. 28. "They 

 change to a rest- 

 ing stage, called 

 pupa." 



to farmers by laying their eggs, which make the 



little bud-worms in the corn. The eggs are laid 



by the mother beetle in the soil at 



the base of the young corn-plants. 



The eggs hatch into little worms, 



such as you see here, which bore into 



the tender stalks and kill the buds as 



I have told you. When they become 



full-grown larvae they leave the stalk 



and make a small earthen cell in the 



soil near by. Inside of this cell they 



change to a resting-stage called pupa. 



During this resting-stage they are really not resting, 

 just because they are so still, but 

 a great change takes place. You 

 remember the little verse you learned 

 in school? It says, 



" Action is not always gain, 

 Crystals form when left at rest." 



" During the pupa stage they change 

 from the simple little larva, such as 

 you see here, to a beautiful twelve- 

 spotted cucumber-beetle having 

 wings, wing covers, feelers, and legs ; 

 after a week or ten days this little 

 cell opens, and instead of a little bud-worm wiggling 

 out of it, as you would suppose, there crawls out of 

 it an active beetle!" 



(After CMttenden, Bur. 

 Ent., U.S.Dept.Agr.) 



FIG. 29. "There 

 crawls out of it 

 an active beetle. " 



