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QUESTION 5d. In ichat other situations besides tie folded cotton-leaves have you known the 

 worms to spin t 



ALABAMA. 



In more ways than I can enumerate, perhaps. On anything they can get to when 

 ready to web up. A weed or coru-stalk will answer very well. [R.W. Russell, Lowndes. 



In the leaves of bushes and weeds; in fact, they web up in almost any green shrub 

 or weed that is in their way. [J. L. Hausberger, Bibb. 



We have known them to spin in the leaves of peach, apple, oak, and hickory trees, 

 and also in leaves of weeds and blades of grass. [ J. A. Callaway, Montgomery. 



Weeds, grass, and brush. [H. Tutwiler, Hale. 



When the cotton-leaves are exhausted they will web themselves up in the leaves of 

 the hog-weed, or any other weed of proper size which grows on the hedge-rows con- 

 venient. [Dr. John Peurifoy, Montgomery. 



(The worms have eaten most of the leaves and young buds of the plants in my field 

 and are on the move. They may be seen moving through the grass, potato-vines, 

 &c., and upon the trunks of pine trees, seldom, however, higher than five or six feet 

 from the ground, as they jump off or fall back after climbing a short time. I do not 

 see that they have begun to eat anything else than the cotton.) Most of the worms 

 of the past week or ten days have webbed up in the cotton-leaves, and the chrysalides 

 hang many from the denuded leaf-skeletons. They are scarcely covered at all, the leaf- 

 blades in which they were wrapped having been eaten away, and they hang almost free 

 in air. The present brood of worms I find webbing up in the leaves of various plants : 

 the following I have noticed: sweet-potato, Cassia obtusifolia and Occidentalis, Physalis 

 lanccolata, Solanam Carolinense, sassafras, Pharbitis nil, Ipomoea tamnifolia, Sida spinosa, 

 Ambrosia artemisiasfolia, Xanthana stromarimn, Euphorbia maculata, Amarantus spinosus, 

 Quercus aqiiatica (small trees), sweet gum (small), watermelon, Passiflora incarnata, and 

 young mulberries ; the latter seems a favorite. Nearly all the leaves of half a dozen 

 young mulberry plants are rolled up by the worms. A few worms of the present brood 

 I have found webbed up in the cracks of the bark of old field-pines standing in the 

 field. Most that I have seen have been on east, north, and west sides. Have seen none 

 on south sides of the trees. The greater part of the present brood, however, are web- 

 bing up in any leaves that they encounter, grass leaves excepted. The webs made by 

 the present brood of worms are simply the leaf rolled once and bound together by the 

 silk. In the case of those worms webbing in the crevices of pine-bark, a thin gauze 

 of the silk was all that protected them ; through this web the worm can easily be seen. 

 Thus far I see no tendency on the part of the worms to make a denser cocoon than 

 those of the preceding brood. I have noticed the moths occasionally fly up from a mass 

 of swee>potato vines among which Cassia obtusifolia and C.occidcntalis were growing. 

 Perhaps the glands on the leaf-stalks of those two species may have offered some at- 

 traction, though I have not seen any moth upon the plants. [E. A. Smith, Tuscaloosa. 



When numerous enough to destroy the crop they will spin in any leaf when there 

 are no cotton-leaves left. [H. A. Stolenwerck, Perry. 



They will spin upon anything. [James M. Harrington, Monroe. 



I have seen them webbed up in the leaves of the mulberry and cocklebur. [R. H. 

 Powell, Bullock. 



They will web up in the green leaves of weeds or bushes when most convenient, but 

 I have never known them to spin on anything dry, except the open cotton-boll. [D. 

 Lee, Lowudes. 



They are not confined to a folded leaf, but the eggs may be found upon open leaves. 

 [J. C. Matthews, Dale. 



On almost any kind of weed or bush that happens to be near the field. [M. W 

 Hand, Greene. 



On the old cotton-stalks, limbs of trees (on the ground), bark, stumps, and old logs, 

 all on the ground. [P. D. Bowles, Conecuh. 



I have never seen the worm spin except in cotton-leaves. [J. W. Du Bose, Mont 

 gomery. 



They have been known to web upon any object, on oak leaves, in stumps, or on com- 

 mon weeds, &c. [A. D. Edwards, Macon. 



The worm must find something in which to web up or perish ; it will use anything 

 green or soft enough in which to fold itself up, called spinning. [H. Hawkins, Bar- 

 bo ur. 



As soon as the third crop is gro svn, or by the time all the cotton-leaves are consumed 

 and the worms crawl off onto any green weed and spin. I have seen the weeds cov- 

 ered with the worms and not a leaf eaten, but all used by the worm in which to fold 

 himself. [H. Hawkins, Barbour. 



In various kinds ; the red-oak leaf, potato-vine leaf, cocklebur leaf. As before said, 

 I don't think such amounts to anything, but I am not positive about it ; at least there 

 is no late growth of cotton eaten ; hence I conclude the chrysalis found on these leaves 

 don't produce the fly. The caterpillar fly is seen all a oug in the latter mouths. la 

 making molasses now (Novem ber 26, 1878), they get into your juice. [A. Jay, Conecuh. 



