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LEPIDOPTBRA (MOTHS). 



damage is often attributed to other animals, as they are not 

 seen during the day. Celery in some places is attacked by 

 them ; the culprits have been thought to be rabbits. The two 

 commonest moths named above have thick hairy bodies, and 

 measure over an inch and a half across the wings — the upper 

 ones in A. exclamationis being brown with dark-brown marks on 

 them, the lower isale-brown. A. scgetuni is paler in colour. 



Runipdies. — Wheat-fields are often ravaged by these pests, 

 and all we can then do is to apply nitrate of soda. Hand- 



Fio. 104.— Heart-and-Dart Moth {Agrotis rxclamationii'). 

 1, Imago ; 2, surface larva ; 3 and 4, chrysalis in eaithi'D case. (Curtis.) 



picking in the day-time by turning over the soil around plants 

 that look to be flagging is worth the trouble, even in large 

 cabbage-fields, where they often are very destructive. After 

 the crop has been taken, it is a good plan to turn a number of 

 fowls on the land, as they devour these larvae greedily ; but for 

 wholesale purposes there is nothing like a dressing of vaporite. 

 These so-called " Cut-worms " may also be destroyed by placing 

 here and there small heaps of clover or lucern soaked in 

 arsenate of lead, or even bran treated in the same manner. 



The Phisiadic or Y-JIoths include one destructive species — 

 namely, the Silvery Y {Plusia (jdinnia) (fig. 105), which now 

 and then damages turnips and clover. The \a.Yxst have only 



