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MISCELLANEOUS COTTON INSECTS. 
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caught at light than of any other affecting cotton; not a sufficient num- 
ber, however, to warrant the use of light as a remedy at any time. 
April 20, 1904, we received a report from Mr. 8. J. Berry man, 
Montalba, Anderson County, that there w^as "some complaint of bud- 
worm (IMiot/ds obsoleta Fab.) and webworm in corn. 11 No specimens 
of the webworm were received, but as w T e know of no similar insect 
commonly attacking corn in Texas, and as this pest is commonly known 
as the webworm and would 
injure corn about the time 
that injury by the "bud- 
worm 11 would commence, 
there seems no good rea- 
son for doubting the iden- 
tity of the insect. 
A nearly full-grown larva 
was taken at Terrell about 
dale moth; b, larva, lateral ALlV 17, 1904. MotllS taken 
T»"£XrZt Ma J 24 oviposited on the 
more enlarged (reengraved 26th. The eggS are depOS" 
mnd,n • ited on either surface of 
the leaves in bunches of from 8 to 20 and hatch in three days. One 
female laid 48 and another 54 eggs. From these eggs three genera- 
tions were reared up to September 29, as shown in the following table: 
Table IV. — Transformation records of the garden webworm. 
■S^t 
c 
Fig. i.—Loxostegt 
view; c, larva, < 
segment, later; 
somewhat enla 
after Riley, exe 
Egg laid. 
Days 
egg- 
Hatched. 
Days 
larva. 
Pupated. 
Days 
pupa. 
Moth. 
Sk 
May 26 
's 
4 
May 29 ... 
Juiie 29... 
August 11. 
17 
22 
.Tune 14 
July24 
September 1 . . 
9 
7-8 
8 
June 23 
August 1 
September 9 .. 
3 
6 
31 
42 
Augusts 
6 3<s 
Average... 
3.3 
21.3 
8 
37 
In the case of the second generation, one larva which had hatched 
June 29 was observed to molt July 7, 19, and 24, at which latter date 
it pupated. 
The eggs laid September 15 had not batched on October 1 and were 
probably infertile. It has not been observed in what stage the winter 
is passed, but from the observations of Professor Gillette 65 on the 
nearly related species Loxostege sticticalis Linn, it seems probable that 
the larva? hibernate in the ground in a silken tube. It is entirely pos- 
sible, however, that in Texas the pupa or adult moth may pass the 
winter. In any event the hibernating brood first becomes mature by 
«Bul. 98, Colo. Agric. Exp. Sta., p. 6. 
