SMALL WORMS WORKING IN THE SEED 217 
attack, the worms first eating the foliage and then boring into the 
fruit. The full-grown worm is $ to 13 inches long, yellowish in color, 
and marked with two narrow light stripes down its back. The adult 
has white wings, broadly bordered with dark brown. The winter is 
passed as a pupa in folded leaves on the ground. There are three to 
four generations annually. The species is most injurious in the Gulf 
states. 
Since the worms devour the foliage before feeding in the fruit, the 
best remedy is to apply arsenate of lead or Paris green to the vines. 
Crop remnants should be cleaned up, and fall plowing is advisable. 
Early squashes may be used as traps, to divert attack from melons. 
The Pea-moth (Cydia (Semasia) nigricana Steph.) 
In northern sections growing peas are subject to infestation by a 
cylindrical, light yellow larva, half an inch long when full grown, 
which works in the young seed within the growing pod. Infested 
pods ripen early, crack open, and the worm then emerges and goes 
into the ground to transform. The eggs are laid on the pods about 
the close of the blossoming season. Arsenate of lead or Paris green 
applied at this time and again in ten days will check the pest. Early 
peas are not usually much infested, and the same is true of very late 
varieties. 
The Clover Seed-caterpillar (Laspeyresia (Enarmonia) interstinctana 
Clem.) 
Tiny, whitish worms, a third of an inch long when full grown, work 
in the growing heads of clover, eating the florets or the soft, forming 
seeds. In their work they hollow out a cavity in the head, which fails 
to bloom or often blooms on one side only. If a head is torn open, 
the caterpillar will be found inside. 
The adult moth appears at the time of the first blooming of clover. 
Succeeding generations are on the wing at the time of the second 
blooming, and again in late summer. Hibernation takes place as 
pup2 in silk cocoons on the ground, or sometimes as adults. 
