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up the interior of the stem. Following this method one 

 wireworm will destroy a number of plants. Birds devour 

 a good many wireworms, 'but where they are very numerous 

 the best plan is to trap them by placing carrots or pieces 

 of cabbage or broccoli stumps beneath the surface of the 

 ground and examining the " traps " daily, or they may 

 be cleared out by digging vaporite into the ground. 



Daddy Long-Legs or Crane Fly. 



I eggs ; 2 the maggot stage ; 3 pupa ; 4 female fully grown. 



]>addy Long-legs. 



This is a most troublesome pest, and while classified 

 under the name of Ti-pula Oleracea is usually called the 

 " Leather-Jacket Grub," " Crane Ply," or " Daddy Long- 

 legs." The insect is very destructive among the cabbage 

 tribe. It is not so injurious to plants in pots, as the soil 

 is generally too hard for it to burrow in, nor in land which 

 is constantly dug and weeded ; but in land which has 

 borne a good crop of weeds, or in an old pasture it will 

 clear off chrysanthemums as fast as they are planted. I 



