AMERICAN HOME GARDEN. Ill 



appear and swarm like certain kinds of gnats, or like the small 

 flies that frequent foul spo^s and ordure. 



The worms are white, and usually from a quarter to half an 

 inch long. They are found only in diseased vegetables, as 

 stunted radishes, cabbages, or turnips. The true remedy is to 

 pull and burn or boil the crop as soon as it is discovered to be 

 infested, and endeavor to avoid such necessity in future by 

 timely sowing and good culture. 



WIRE WORM, OR RED WORM. 



Fig. 73. 



LAEVA WITH PAEENT ^ r eddish-brown worm, produced by the 

 click-bug, about an inch long, with a very 

 tough, smooth skin, slightly hinged or joint- 

 ed. It enters the root or under-ground por- 

 tion of the stem of plants, and eats its way 

 up through the heart, causing death. 



Larva; &, K later se- ,->, n .1 i 



or ciick-bug. Generally these insects are rather scarce 

 and shy, but at certain periods, and in different and limited sec- 

 tions, a sudden and large increase takes place, and they become 

 very destructive to corn and other crops. Among garden veg- 

 etables they sometimes attack lettuce, and the pink tribe among 

 flowers. They can scarcely be crushed in the earth ; to catch 

 them by hand, and either cut or pull them in two, or crush them 

 upon a stone, seems the only promising mode of open warfare ; 

 but they are sometimes baited with slices of turnip or potato 

 laid upon or just under the ground, which they enter, and are 

 gathered daily and destroyed. 



BEE WORM. 



Fig. 74. 



LAEVA, WITH PAEENT MOTHS. 

 \ 



o, Larva ; &, Galleria cereana (male). 



The bee worm is a yellowish- white worm, with brownish 



