ANSWERS TO CIRCULAR NO. 7. [77] 



Answer by M. G. Stanley. — Tlie caterpillar itself deposits eggs in the ground in the 

 fall. This egg becomes the miller. The fly copulates ; does not eat. 



Answer by W. W. Moore. — The worm passes into chrysalis and in this condition 

 remains till spring, when it emerges a butterfly. No copulation; no eating. 



Answer by A. A. Pettuck. — The worm goes into the ground ; there changes to chrys- 

 alis and remains till spring, when the butterfly comes forth to deposit eggs to start 

 the worm ; fly copulates and eats. 



Answer by W. J. Buchanan. — They go into the stalks of cotton or small stumps at 

 or near the ground ; there they stay as a worm until we see them as a fly in the spring. 

 The fly copulates ; lives upon juices of flowers. 



Answer by William Ahkenbeck. — They^ pass into the ground in the chrysalis state; 

 there remain during winter, become perfected by spring, and come out a fly in spring ; 

 must be male and female ; do not eat. 



Answer by Daniel Loggins. — They go into the chrysalis and remain in that c?>ndi- 

 tion till next year, when they come out a butterfly ; copulate ; do not eat ; fly lives 

 four days. 



Answer by Dr. R. H. Boxley. — They pass into chrysalis state, and in this manner 

 hibernate, when they emerge the next year a fly. The fly copulates, but does not eat ; 

 lives three days. 



Answer by N. K. Alstone. — The caterpillar deposits eggs in the ground in the fall; 

 they lay there all winter and come out a fly in the spring, which deposits eggs to make 

 the worm. Male and female fly ; copulate. They must eat; fly lives two or three 

 months. 



Answer by James Loggins. — The caterpillar changes into some other insect— don't 

 know what this is — which hides itself till spring and then comes out a fly ; fly copu- 

 lates ; feeds on something ; lives nine days. 



Answer by John Loggins.— The caterpillar burrows in the ground in the fall; it 

 changes there to ckrysalis, and in the spring comes out a butterfly ; fly copulates ; lives 

 on juices of plants ; exists about twenty-one days. 



Answer by J. F. Groce.— The fly goes into the ground or secretes itself in some hid- 

 den place in the fall to protect itself from winter's cold, and comes out in July and 

 August t« deposit eggs; no copulation; no eating by fly. 



Answe'r by Johnson Hensley.— A small butterfly fays its eggs in the fall in old 

 trash, leaves, or bark of cotton stalks. These eggs remain intact during winter, and 

 in months of June and July hatch out the worm. The fly copulates and eats juices 

 of vegetation. First saw the worm in Washington County, Texas, in year 18134, on 

 Milk Creek. 



Answer by Waller Cochran. — The caterpillar burrows in the ground ; there 

 changes into chrysalis, and in this condition stays till proper time to hatch out a fly. 

 The fly copulates ; does not eat ; lives two or three weeks.- 



Answer by J. D. Mitchell. — They remain in chrysalis state in any place suitable 

 to protect tiiem during winter ; in spring it comes out a fly, which deposits eggs ; fly 

 copulates ; subsists on juices of plants; lives fifteen or twenty days. 



Answer by H. Lewis. — They go through the winter in the chrysalis state. After 

 eating up the cotton (1879) they took to the crab-grass in the cornfield and devoured 

 it completely. Did not discover any change in the color of worm after eating the 

 grass. The fly lives six or eight weeks. 



Answer by Dr. E. Montgomery. — The chrysalis is the medium of xjerpetuation dur- 

 ing and through winter. The fly eats and copulates. 



Answer by .J. H. Davis. — The chrysalis for the most part turns out a fly, but some- 

 times a croi-s between a chrysalis and worm. This cross goes into the ground aud into 

 trash and lays there till spring, or a suitable time, when it comes out a fly. Sometimes, 

 when the weather is not suitable, very few develop, and consequently we have very 

 few worms. -The fly does not copulate, aud does not eat. 



Answer by Thomas Armer. — The fly secretes itself in some warm place, where it 

 hides till winter is over and warm weather comes to bring it out ; male and female 

 fly ; copulates, but does not eat. Believes the worm eating up the grass is a totally 

 difi'erent one from the Cotton Worm. 



Answer by Thomas Ray.— Believes they pass the winter in the chrysalis state ; have 

 frequently seen them plowed up out of the ground ; male and female fly ; fly lives about 

 ten days. The worm now eating up the grass is a totally difl'erent worm from the Cot- 

 ton Worm, it being of a green color and smaller. 



Livingston, Sumter County, Alabama, 



September 5, 1879. 

 Maj. J, G. Harris handed me your circular and letter, with request that I should 

 reply to the same. I herewith inclose my essay on destroying the Cotton Worm, writ- 

 ten iu I37^f W^J^PJl will give my answers to many of the questions. 



