434 EEPORT UPON COTTON INSECTS. 



Never knew the worm that destroys the coUon-leaf to feed on anything else. [John 

 C. Russell, Madison. 



I have never known them to. [Daniel Cohen, Wilkinson. 



I have found the Aletia webbing up in different weeds, grape leaves, blackberry and 

 mulberry, and also eating the latter, owing no doubt to the iield being stripped of 

 leaves. [E. H. Anderson, Madison. 



I have never seen them on any other plant or feed on any other. I have seen thou- 

 sands of the moths in thick grass and on pea vines ; they seem to like the cover of pea 

 vines in day, but have never seen the worms or eggs onthe pea-vines or on grass. [C. 

 F. Sheriod, Lowndes. 



They feed upon nothing but cotton. I have often seen them devouring each other, 

 after the field was stripped of its leaves, among weeds, grass, and pea-vines. [I. G. G. 

 Garrett, Clarborne. 



NORTH CAROLINA. 



The worm feeds on the cotton-plant only. [F. I. Smith, Halifax. 



SOUTH CAROLINA. 



Have never known it to do so. [James W. Grace, Colleton. 



I have never known the cotton-worm to feed on anything but cotton. [Paul S. Fel- 

 der, Orangobnrg. 

 The worm never feeds on anything but cotton. [James C. Brown, Barnwell. 



TENNESSEE. 



From the evidence of others, I cannot well deny that the worms do sometimes feed 

 upon other plants for a short time ; though the fact, if a fact, is contrary to my obser- 

 vation. [A. W. Hunt, M. D., Perry. 



TEXAS. 



I believe under certain conditions the moth would make its appearance very early, 

 and finding only grass would deposit its eggs thereon, and that the worm, on hatching 

 out, would eat the leaves of the grass. [P. S. Clarke, Waller. 



I do not think the worm does or can feed uprn any other plant than cotton. I have 

 seen them start to travel after cleaning off the cotton, and pass over weeds, grass, 

 and other shrubes, but never attempted to eat anything. They would pile up and die 

 by the million. Nothing but cotton would they eat. [O. H. P. Garrett, Washington. 



They never do. [S. P. Watts, Harden. 



Have been seen several years to eat grass crop-grass, we call it here. Have seen 

 them one year eat wormwood in geat quantity. They do it only when there is no more 

 cotton to eat. [R. Wipprecht, Comal. 



In cases of extreme hunger they have been known to eat crop-grass, though slightly, 

 .and sometimes they devour each other. [J. M. Glasco, Upshur. 



I have seen a few on the tomato after the cotton-plant had become too dry. I do 

 Bot know that they fed on it. [Samuel Davis, Hunt. 



The worm does not feed on anything but cotton. [W. T. Hill, Walker. 



They never feed upon any other plant. [A. Underwood, Brazoria. 



It does not. I have tested it to my satisfaction. Naturally it feeds upon the cotton- 

 plant, and cannot be forced (by confinement) to feed upon anything else. I have fol- 

 lowed and watched them after leaving a field that they had devoured. They were 

 starved out, but eat nothing, and so perished. [J. W. Jackson, Titus. 



Never known to feed on any plant but cotton. When the cotton hns all been de- 

 stroyed the large ones fall upon anything that they can find a leaf sufficient for them 

 to double over, the younger ones perishing by starvation, or ants and hot sand, &c. 

 J_.Natt Holman, Fayette. 



No. [Stephen Harbert, Colorado. 



WISCONSIN. 



Charles Jackson, four miles from Racine, raised large quantities of melons for market, 

 mostly of the nutmeg variety. He complained to me that there was a miller that 

 xintruu'd in his melon patch aib night, and did much damage. I visited the locality at 

 night, and discovered that it was the Alelia arflillacca, and that they did literally 

 .swarm; and wherever there was a ripe melon that had a slight crack on its surface 

 there the moth was sucking and crowding into the heart of the fruit, and in that way 

 they die 1 considerable damage. This was on September 10, 1877. Last September they 

 were not so numerous, and did less damage. I noticed where the melons were per- 

 i'ectly sound they did not work. [P. R. Hoy, Racine. 



