Department of Agriculture 



Fig. 14. — Two typical Sea Island cotton fields, in which defoliation by the 

 leaf worm was practically complete. Note that all foliage w^as 

 eaten even from the tips of the limbs and the tops of the plants. 

 Wherever defoliation was as complete as here shown, the boll 

 w^eevils soon migrated and no new brood -was hatched. The foliage 

 in both fields was dense prior to «^he leaf worm attack, which 

 occurred about September 2 5. 



