26 PAPEES ON IXSECTS AFFECTING VEGETABLES. 
more serious on young cabbage, because the " buds " were being de- 
voured and small webs filled with excrement were left in their stead. 
There was only a small plat of cabbage where, on the other hand, 
there were acres of turnips. The webs were distributed also over the 
turnips, some of them being empty, the larva having transformed 
to the moth. This pest was doing great damage to the two truck 
crops. Some other pests were associated with it and were doing some 
injury, such as the flea-beetle {PhyUotreta Mpustulata Fab.) and the 
cabbage looper (Autographa brassicce Riley). 
During the fall of 1909 the late F. C. Pratt reported this webworm 
as a pest to cruciferous crops at Sabinal, Tex. About the middle of 
January, 1910, the junior author visited Sabinal and in company 
with Mr. Pratt examined the gardens where injury had occurred. 
The characteristic work of the larva was observed on radish and 
cabbage, which remained as crop remnants, but none of the insects 
was found. Mr. Pratt said he had taken an adult, out of doors, late 
in Xovember and expressed the opinion that the insect might winter 
in the adult condition in that locality. 
October 22 the larva was observed in large numbers at Columbus, 
Miss., upon cabbage, turnips, and collards grown by Mr. J. E. 
Slaughter. The larvae bore into the stems of the cabbage and tur- 
nips for some little distance or eat out small crevices in the edges of 
the stems, enough to bury their bodies, and then, spinning a cocoon, 
they transform into pupae. 
Xovember 2, 1909, the larva was found by Mr. M. M. High in 
large numbers at Starkville, Miss., upon turnips. The larva was 
observed in the crotch of every other plant, boring and hiding from 
the light. From one to three were found in the " buds." Fully 50 
per cent of the turnip crop under consideration had the buds de- 
stroyed by this imported webworm. The plants attacked had small 
roots and looked stunted or checked in their growth. 
This insect seems to do the greater damage to cabbage and turnips, 
although injury to collards is by no means slight, especially while the 
latter are young. The larva seems to prefer turnips in the row to 
those sown broadcast. There was not a plant, either cabbage or 
turnip, but that contained from two to many of these larvae. 
December 3, 1909, Mr. High found webworms of this species in 
large numbers in the crotch and stems of turnips at Hattiesburg, 
Miss., where the} 7 concealed themselves beneath their webs, destroy- 
ing the most vital portion of the plant. One grower stated that this 
insect was a perfect nuisance to older plants and a menace to young 
ones. He said : 
The Utile striped worm enters the bud of both cabbage and turnip when the 
plants are quite young and devours them, thus forcing the plant to grow a new 
bud and start or begin new growth — my first crop of cabbage in the spring 
being almost totally destroyed from the work of this striped worm. 
