446 REPORT UPON COTTON INSECTS. 



Have never seen a cotton- worm in any other place than the cotton-field. [R. B. Dan- 

 lap, Greene. 



On smart-weed, pea-vines, and almost every kind of vegetation. [ J. R. Rogers, Bul- 

 lock. 



In the leaves of weeds. [C. C. Howard, Autauga. 



The worms in force consume all the leaves, even th ose already used as wrappers 

 by other worms, are then forced to web on grass, weeds, bushes, or cloth if placed 

 near the field. The distance traveled in quest of a webbing-place will not exceed 30 

 yards. [P. T. Graves, Lowndes. 



The worm spins on the leaf of any plant that may chance to be convenient. [J. N. 

 Gilmore, Sumter. 



After the leaf is exhausted they will web in the weeds and bushes round the field. 

 [R. S. Williams, Montgomery. 



None other. [John D. Johnston, Sumter. 



Have never known them spin in any other situation than the leaf of the cotton- 

 plant. [R. F. Henry, Pickens. 



After the leaf is exhausted they will web in the weeds and bushes near the field. 

 [R. S. Williams, Montgomery. 



On the forest leaves and weeds, and any other place they could get, after having 

 passed through the cotton-field and eaten all the cotton- leaves up. [I. F. Culver, 

 Bullock. 



Leaves of various weeds. [J. H. Smith, J. F. Calhoun, Dallas. 



When the cotton-leaf has been swept off and the brood is ready to "go to its fath- 

 ers" or into the chrysalis state, they will wrap themselves up in the leaf of the " cockle- 

 bur," or any other leaf that is large enough to envelop them. They spin not, neither 

 do they toil, but eat, eat, eat, until they empty our pockets. Banquo's ghost was not 

 more appalling than the first caterpillar is to the planter. [I. D. Dreisbach, Baldwin. 



They fold up in anything that will bend sufficient for the business. I have often 

 found them oil paper or old cloth or any substance they can find ; this is when they 

 are very numerous, having eaten all the cotton-leaves and leaving nothing on the cot- 

 ton-stalk to afford shelter. [H. C. Brown, Wilcox. 



After the leaves of the cotton are devoured the worm will spin itself up upon green 

 vegetation of almost any kind. They are often seen in the fence-corners webbiug up 

 to protect themselves from the sun. I have seen them in the cracks of the fencing 

 and upon dead timber securely webbed. [C. M. Howard, Autauga. 



Various weeds. [ Knox, Minge, and Evans, Hale. 



ARKANSAS. 



Have seen them spin from bushes, weeds, and ends of cotton-stalks, though not very 

 often. [E. T. Dale, Miller. 



I have seen the web on different kinds of weeds. [T. S. Edwards, Pope. 



Can't say that I have known them to spin on anything else. [Norborne Young, 

 Columbia. 



FLORIDA. 



I have never known the boll- worm to spin on the cotton leaf. I am sure they go into 

 the ground. I have dug them out of the ground in October and always close to the 

 stalk, rarely even four or five inches from it. [ J. M. McGehee, Santa Rosa. 



In any weeds or grass that may be near, particularly the rag- weed, which is tender, 

 pliant, and easily folded. [John Bradford, Leon. 



The worm when it leaves the fields, as it sometimes does as early as September, 

 always webs itself in any green leaf which presents itself in the shrubbery along the 

 fence rows or in the weeds or even the grasses there growing, and the miller emerg- 

 ing from the chrysalis goes off into the forest, leaving the cotton-fields which are 

 sometimes only partly stripped, and not returning to them, though they often become 

 green again with new leaves. [R. Gamble, Leon. 



GEORGIA. 



No other leaves. [D. P. Luke, Berrien. 



None. [A. J. Cheves, Macon. 



On bark, fence-rails, in fact on grass. [W. A. Harris, Worth. 



They invariably web in the cotton ; generally in the top leaves. [S. P. Odom, 

 Dooly. 



The worm will spin on the small limbs of cotton, on bushes and palmetto fans. 

 Sometimes they get in the wood and in the jambs of the fences. I have seen thirty 

 or forty hanging by the end of one palmetto leaf or fan as it is called. [Timothy 

 Fussell, Coffee. 



The worms will spin on any kind of soft leaves in the field, as gum, brier, &c. [Wil- 

 liam Jones, Clarke. 



