﻿PAST 
  HISTORY 
  OF 
  THE 
  ARMY 
  WORM. 
  97 
  

  

  In 
  18G5 
  and 
  18C6 
  it 
  attracted 
  attention 
  in 
  restricted 
  localities 
  in 
  Illi- 
  

   nois 
  and 
  Missouri. 
  In 
  1869 
  it 
  again 
  appeared 
  in 
  vast 
  numbers 
  in 
  many- 
  

   portions 
  of 
  Missouri, 
  especially 
  in 
  Saint 
  Louis, 
  Jefferson, 
  Cooper, 
  Calla- 
  

   way, 
  Henry, 
  Saint 
  Clair, 
  Marion, 
  Ralls, 
  and 
  Lafayette 
  Counties 
  j 
  also 
  in 
  

   Illinois 
  and 
  Indiana. 
  

  

  1870. 
  — 
  In 
  this 
  year 
  the 
  worms 
  were 
  reported 
  to 
  the 
  Department 
  from 
  

   Jefferson 
  and 
  Crawford 
  Counties, 
  Kansas 
  ; 
  Polk 
  and 
  Osage, 
  Missouri, 
  

   and 
  Eichland, 
  Wisconsin. 
  

  

  1871. 
  — 
  Marion 
  and 
  Morgan 
  Counties, 
  Illinois 
  (Prairie 
  Farmer 
  Record) 
  ; 
  

   Linn, 
  Louisa, 
  Washington, 
  Appanoose, 
  and 
  other 
  counties 
  in 
  Iowa 
  

   (State 
  Agricultural 
  Report, 
  1871), 
  and 
  Warren 
  County, 
  'New 
  Jersey 
  

   (Monthly 
  Report 
  Department 
  of 
  Agriculture, 
  1871). 
  

  

  1872. 
  — 
  In 
  1872 
  it 
  was 
  more 
  widespread, 
  and 
  I 
  received 
  specimens 
  from 
  several 
  cor- 
  

   respondents, 
  in 
  Iowa 
  more 
  particularly. 
  It 
  was 
  reported 
  in 
  Louisa, 
  Van 
  Buren, 
  Wa- 
  

   pello, 
  Jefferson, 
  Muscatine, 
  Jasper, 
  Washington, 
  Iowa, 
  and 
  Adams 
  Counties 
  in 
  that 
  

   State, 
  and 
  very 
  generally 
  in 
  Wisconsin, 
  in 
  Ohio, 
  and 
  in 
  Kentucky. 
  It 
  attracted 
  less 
  

   attention 
  in 
  Illinois 
  and 
  Missouri, 
  though 
  I 
  met 
  with 
  it 
  frequently 
  in 
  the 
  last-named 
  

   State. 
  It 
  was 
  also 
  reported 
  from 
  Tioga 
  County, 
  New 
  York. 
  Graphic 
  accounts 
  were 
  

   likewise 
  published 
  of 
  its 
  devastations 
  in 
  Tennessee, 
  and 
  the 
  California 
  Farmer 
  of 
  July 
  

   25, 
  1872, 
  reported 
  legions 
  of 
  Army 
  Worms 
  as 
  appearing 
  over 
  that 
  State 
  spontaneously, 
  

   and 
  '^ 
  stripping 
  vines 
  and 
  potato 
  fields." 
  From 
  this 
  last 
  statement 
  I 
  infer 
  that 
  they 
  

   were 
  of 
  some 
  species 
  other 
  than 
  the 
  one 
  we 
  are 
  considering. 
  

  

  But 
  the 
  most 
  interesting 
  manifestation 
  of 
  the 
  insect 
  during 
  the 
  year 
  1872 
  was 
  in 
  

   the 
  vicinity 
  of 
  Peshtigo, 
  in 
  the 
  northeastern 
  portion 
  of 
  Wisconsin. 
  It 
  will 
  he 
  remem- 
  

   bered 
  that 
  of 
  the 
  memorable 
  fires 
  that 
  ravaged 
  the 
  northwestern 
  country 
  in 
  the 
  fall 
  

   of 
  1871, 
  none, 
  after 
  that 
  of 
  Chicago, 
  attracted 
  more 
  attention 
  or 
  caused 
  more 
  sympa- 
  

   thy 
  for 
  the 
  sufferers 
  therefrom 
  than 
  that 
  which 
  swept 
  through 
  Peshtigo, 
  destroying 
  

   the 
  whole 
  town 
  and 
  causing 
  numerous 
  deaths 
  and 
  great 
  distress. 
  During 
  July 
  of 
  

   the 
  following 
  year 
  the 
  people 
  of 
  Peshtigo 
  suffered 
  another 
  infliction 
  in 
  the 
  shape 
  of 
  

   armies 
  of 
  worms 
  that 
  destroyed 
  the 
  crops 
  and 
  were 
  so 
  numerous 
  that 
  in 
  many 
  places, 
  

   they 
  could 
  be 
  shoveled 
  up 
  by 
  bushels, 
  and 
  fell 
  into 
  wells 
  in 
  such 
  myriads 
  as 
  to 
  render 
  

   the 
  water 
  foul 
  and 
  useless. 
  This 
  case 
  has 
  such 
  an 
  interesting 
  bearing 
  on 
  the 
  insect's 
  

   natural 
  history 
  that 
  I 
  shall 
  revert 
  to 
  it 
  again 
  under 
  that 
  head. 
  For 
  the 
  present 
  it 
  is 
  

   only 
  necessary 
  to 
  say 
  that 
  there 
  can 
  be 
  no 
  doubt 
  as 
  to 
  the 
  species, 
  as 
  specimens 
  re- 
  

   ceived 
  by 
  Dr. 
  Le 
  Baron 
  and 
  by 
  myself 
  showed 
  it 
  to 
  be 
  the 
  insect 
  under 
  considera- 
  

   tion. 
  (Riley's 
  8th 
  Mo. 
  Ent. 
  Kept.) 
  

  

  In 
  addition 
  to 
  these 
  localities 
  we 
  have 
  the 
  following 
  from 
  the 
  ento- 
  

   mological 
  records 
  in 
  the 
  Monthly 
  Reports 
  of 
  the 
  Department 
  of 
  Agricult- 
  

   ure: 
  Wabash, 
  Monroe, 
  Lawrence, 
  Carroll, 
  Ogle, 
  and 
  White, 
  Illinois; 
  

   Cherokee 
  and 
  Labette, 
  Kansas 
  ; 
  Posey, 
  Gibson, 
  Spencer, 
  Hancock, 
  Mar- 
  

   ion, 
  and 
  Pike, 
  Indiana, 
  and 
  Henr^^ 
  and 
  Nahaska, 
  Illinois. 
  Also 
  in 
  a 
  few 
  

   localities 
  in 
  Rhode 
  Island 
  and 
  Connecticut 
  the 
  sod-corn 
  and 
  the 
  grass 
  

   crops 
  were 
  taken. 
  

  

  1873. 
  — 
  This 
  year 
  the 
  worms 
  iujured 
  the 
  grass 
  crop 
  in 
  Northumber- 
  

   land 
  County, 
  Virginia, 
  in 
  July 
  (undoubtedly 
  the 
  second 
  brood), 
  and 
  they 
  

   also 
  occurred 
  during 
  the 
  year 
  in 
  Bedford 
  County, 
  Tennessee, 
  on 
  clover; 
  

   in 
  Posey 
  and 
  Dubois 
  Counties, 
  Indiana, 
  on 
  meadows; 
  and 
  also 
  in 
  Ed- 
  

   wards, 
  Williamson, 
  Franklin, 
  and 
  Perry 
  Counties, 
  Illinois, 
  also 
  on 
  mead- 
  

   ows. 
  

  

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