AMERICAN HOME GARDEN. Ill 



appear and swarm like certain kinds of gnats, or like the small 

 flics that frequent foul spots and ordure. 



The worms are white, and usually from a quarter to half an 

 inch long. They are found only in diseased vegetables, as 

 stunted radishes, cabbages, or turnips. The true remedy is to 

 pull and burn or boil the crop as soon as it is discovered to be 

 infested, and endeavor to avoid such necessity in futm"e by 

 timely sowing and good culture. 



WIRE WORM, OR RED WORM. 

 ^^^' '''"' A reddish-brown worm, produced by the 



lahva. with pabent ^ ■' 



I'l'O- click-bug, about an inch long, with a very 



""^"^Sl tough, smooth skin, slightly hinged or joint- 

 ed. It enters the root or under-ground por- 

 ^^_ff tion of the stem of plants, and eats its way 



<s^Sf$!Bj^^s^ vip through the heart, causing death. 

 ' 'jletij/oV ( 'lick-bug! Generally these insects are rather scarce 

 and shy, but at certain periods, and in diiferent and limited sec- 

 tions, a sudden and large increase takes place, and they become 

 very destiiTctive to corn and other crops. Among garden veg- 

 etables they sometimes attack lettuce, and the pink tribe among 

 flowers. They can scarcely be crushed in the earth ; to catch 

 them by hand, and either cut or pull them in two, or crush them 

 upon a stone, seems the only promising mode of open warfare ; 

 but they are sometimes baited with slices of turnip or potato 

 laid upon or just under the ground, which they enter, and are 

 gathered daily and destroyed. 



BEE WORM. 



Fig. T4 



LAEVA, WITH I'AEENT MOTUS. 





rt, T.arva ; &, Galleria ( i 



The bee worai is a yellowish-white worm, with brownish 



