CABBAGE. 



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12. The Tarnished Plant-bug (Capsus oUineatus). 



13. The False Chinch-Bug (Nysius destructor.) 



FLEA-BEETLE. 



The first in order to attack the plant in its earliest 

 growth, and before the appearance of rough leaves > is the 

 Flea-beetle in the perfect state. Lime or soot, dusted on 

 the young plants, while wet with dew, seems distasteful 

 enough to the insect to drive it off. The larva also in- 

 jures the roots of larger cabbage plants. 



GREEtf CABBAGE-WORMS. 



The little green worm of the Cabbage Botys (Botys re- 

 petitalis), feeds upon the lower leaves of young plants, 



Fig. 25. CABBAGE PLUSIA (Flusia brassicce.) 

 a, Larva ; b, Chrysalis ; c, Moth, male. 



while webbed up near the ground with a few grains of 

 sand. At present it does no material damage, but were 

 it to become as numerous on the cabbage, as it sometimes 

 is on the Bag- weed (Ambrosia artemisicefolia) , it might 

 be injurious. 



The little pale-green, frisky worm of the ash-gray 



