OF THE FAKM AND GARDEN". 



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sides of a grass blade and glued along the grooves with a 

 white, glistening, and adhesive fluid, which not only 

 fastens them together but draws the two sides of the 

 grass blade close around them so as to pretty 

 effectually hide them. The female performs this opera- 

 tion at night, and is extremely active at the time, laying 

 her eggs with great rapidity, so that the ovaries are soon 

 emptied. Each individual egg is glistening white at 

 first, but becomes dull yellowish toward maturity. The 

 female prefers a dry blade to a green one, and is espe- 



Fig. 88.— CBKISALIS, 



Fig. 87. — AKMT WORM. 



Fig. 89.— MOTH OF ABMT WORM. 



cially prone to oviposit in places where there is a 

 thick matting of coarse, last year's grass. The young 

 worm hatches in about ten days, and up to the last 

 moult has all the habits of an ordinary Cut- Worm, 

 the colors being much paler than when full grown, and 

 the worm hiding during the day at the base of the grasses. 

 When not excessively numerous they retain this their 

 normal Cut- Worm habit, and only when they become 

 excessively multiplied do they acquire the marching and 

 migrating habits. 



Remedies. — Experience has established the fact that 

 burning a meadow, or prairie, or field of stubble, in winter 



