APPENDIX II ANSWERS TO CIRCULAR. 447 



The usual mode is to spin in the top of the cotton from limb to limb, and make a 

 perfect network like the spider. [M. Kemp. Marion. 



I have noticed the worms weave their webs in peach and apple trees and other 

 trees. [E. M. Thompson, Jackson. 



LOUISIANA. 



In almost any kind of a leaf large enough to hold them, that is after the cottonleaves- 

 are destroyed. This year I have noticed four or five worms wrapped up in one pear- 

 sprout leaf. [H. B. Shaw, Concordia. 



While there is any cotton left to subsist on, the worm eats it until fully grown ; then 

 doubles itself up in a cotton-leaf and turns to a black pointed affair, which we call a 

 cocoon or chrysalis. From this emerges in due time a moth, or fly, which proceeds to 

 l^y e gg s oa the cotton-leaves which hatch in due time into cotton-worms who go the 

 same round. But the cotton-plant is their sole food and place of breeding as long as 

 any of it exists. The last crop spin their cocoons, or web up, after they have exhausted 

 all the cotton, upon any weeds or bushes they come to. They emerge from these as 

 moths, as before, and may be started up from weeds and bushes by thousands, but they 

 breed and increase no more during that season, so far as I am informed. [Douglas 

 M. Hamilton, West Feliciana. 



The cotton-worm will roll up in anything that is green. [John A. Maryman, East 

 Feliciana. 



I have known it to spin on the blades of sugar-cane, on the leaves of cocklebur and 

 other weeds. [Dr. I. U. Ball, West Feliciana. 



MISSISSIPPI. 



I have often found the chrysalides enfolded in the meshes of open cotton-bolls, and 

 this is common with the last brood which finds no leaves to web up in. [ J. Culbertson, 

 Rankin. 



In the leaves of the cocklebur and Jamestown weed. [ J. W. Burch, Jefferson. 



On sundry weeds. Sometimes vast numbers of chrysalides are seen on a single weed ; 

 as many as twenty, thirty, and even more have been counted on a twig less than 

 two feet long. This occurs only when the cotton-leaves have been destroyed and the 

 caterpillars have wandered in search of suitable leaves, till, I suppose, finding them- 

 selves about to change to chrysalides or forced to spin, they fasten on any convenient 

 place or anything from which they may hang above the ground. [D. L. Phares, Wil- 

 kinson. 



They will spin on almost any kind of plant besides cotton and sometimes hang by a 

 single thread on cotton already stripped. [Daniel Cohen, Wilkinson. 



I have seen this year the worm spun up in the hogweed, grass growing on the ditches 

 running through the cotton-fields. It was their only chance, though, to spin in that or 

 die. [John C. Russell, Madison. 



The first brood folds the leaf invariably so long as there are leaves. When the plant 

 is bare, attaches its chrysalis to the naked fibers of the leaf and sometimes to the 

 twigs of the plant. [Dr. E. H. Anderson, Madison. 



On the leaves of grass, weeds, and almost every kind of bush in reach, unless it is 

 the long-leaved pine. [C. Welch, Covington. 



No other. [Kenneth Clarke, Chickasaw. 



In the leaves of any weeds or bushes I have found the crysalides under boards and 

 fence- rails. [I. G. G. Garrett, Claiborne. 



Only on young sassafras and persimmons when growing in fields of young cotton, 

 and probably only then when blown or*shaken off the cotton. [ W. Spillman, Clarke. 



In every kind of leaf they could find, and often in grass blades. [George V. Webb, 

 Amite. 



NORTH CAROLINA. 



No other. [F. I. Smith, Halifax. 



SOUTH CAROLINA. 



I have never known them to spin in any other place except when the fields have 

 been eaten out, and then have seen a few wound up in oak-leaves by the side of the 

 fields. [James W. Grace, Colletou. 



If the cotton -leaves are all eaten and there be a leaf near of any weed, they will 

 get on that and fold it over ; otherwise they seem to be lost, and perish without going 

 into chrysalis. [James C. Brown, Barnwell. 



TENNESSEE. 



I have never known cotton-worms to spin in other situations than the cotton-leaves 

 My attention has frequently been called to other situations in which it was said they 

 had spun. The few of such cases which have been examined by me proved the spin- 

 ner to belong to another family. [A. W. Hunt, M. D., Perry. 



