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There is another pretty spotted worm that coils itself up on 

 the cabbage ; it is the painted caterpillar, larva of the Mamestra 

 picta. It is rather rare, and its appetite not very voracious. 



The larva of the Cerostoma brasicella is a yellowish green 

 worm, described by Fitch as about one third (0.35) of an inch 

 long, and of the thickness of a coarse knitting-needle, tapering 

 somewhat to both ends, with sixteen -legs, and very active, hav- 

 ing sometimes a dark head. The moth which produces it is 

 about the same length, and of an ash-gray color. 



The worm, in certain localities, appears upon the cabbage in 

 October, particularly in dry seasons, and feeds chiefly upon the 

 loose outer leaves, thoroughly riddling them. At length it 

 spins a thin gauze-like cocoon, which it attaches to the eaten 

 leaf. 



It is not extensively injurious, but simply disagreeable upon 

 a vegetable intended for food. It has its parasitic foe, the 

 smaller brown cocoons of which will be found near by. 



CORN GRUB. 



Fig. TO. 



LARV.E. WITH THEIR PARENT BUGS. 



a, a, Larvae. 



6, Melolontha vulgaris, or May-beetle^ r, Melolontha copris, or Tumble-bug. 



The corn grub is a whitish, fat, disgusting grub, from one 

 to two inches long, which is often found greatly to injure corn 



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