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color, and marked with black or very dark gray. The 

 abdomen has five yellow spots along each side. 



Fig. 122. — Tomato moth and tomato worm. 



A small moth, known as the codling moth, lays its tiny 

 white eggs on the surfaces of young green apples and leaves 

 (Fig. 123). The eggs hatch and the young larvic Ijore into 

 the apple, in most cases entering at the ])lossom ends, and 

 causing wormy apples. 



Sometimes a field of cotton is attacked by caterpillars 

 in such numbers that they are known in the South as 

 the "army worms." These "worms" are the larvaj of the 

 cotton moth (Fig. 124). This moth lays its eggs upon the 



