ANSWERS TO CIRCULAR NO. 7. 
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Answer by If. G. Stanley.— The caterpillar itself deposits eggs in the ground in the 
fall. This egg becomes the miller. The lly copulates ; does not eat. 
Answer by W. W. Moohe. — The worm passes into chrysalis and in this condition 
remains till spring, when it emerges a butterfly. No copulation; no eating. 
Answer by A. A. Pettuck. — The worm goes into the ground ; there changes to chrys- 
alis and remains till spring, when the butterfly comes forth to deposit eggs to start 
the worm ; fly copulates and eats. 
Answer by W. J. Buchanan. — They go into the stalks of cotton or small stumps at 
or near the ground ; there they stay as a worm until we see them as a fly in the spring. 
The lly copulates ; lives upon juices of flowers. 
Answer by William Aiirenbeck. — They pass into the ground in the chrysalis state; 
there remain during winter, become perfected by spring, and come out a fly in spring ; 
must be male and female ; do not eat. 
Answer by Daniel Loggins. — They go into the chrysalis and remain in that condi- 
tion till next year, when they come out a butterfly ; copulate ; do not eat ; fly lives 
four day 8. 
Answer by Dr. R. IL Boxley. — They pass into chrysalis state, and in this manner 
hibernate, when they emerge the next year a fly. The fly copulates, but does not eat ; 
lives three days. 
Answer by N. K. Alstone. — The caterpillar deposits eggs in the ground in the fall; 
they lay there ail winter and come out a lly in the spring, w hich deposits eggs to make 
the worm. Male and female lly ; copulate They must eat; fly lives two or three 
months'. 
Answer by James Loggins. — The caterpillar changes into some other insect— don't 
know what this is— which hides itself till spring and then comes out a fly ; fly copu- 
lates ; feeds on something ; lives nine days. 
Answer by .John Loggins.- The caterpillar burrows in the ground in the fall; it 
changes there to chrysalis, and in tlx- spring comesout a butterfly ; lly copulates; lives 
on juices of plants ; exists about twenty-one days. 
Answer by .1. \\ ( Jroce.- The lly goes into the ground or secretes itself in some hid- 
den place in the fall to protect itself from winters cold, and comes out in July and 
August to deposit eggs; no copulation ; no eat ing by lly . 
Answer by Johnson Mens LET. — A small butterfly lavs its eggs in the fall in old 
(rash, leaves, or bark of cot ton-stalks. These eggs remain intact during winter, and 
in mouths of June and July hatch out the worm. The lly copulates and eats juices 
of vegetation. First saw the worm in Washington Count v, Texas, in year 18:i4, on 
Milk Creek. 
Answer by Waller Cochran.— The caterpillar burrows in the ground; there 
changes into chrysalis, Mid in this condition stays till proper time to hatch out a fly. 
The lly copulate* ; does not eat: lives two or three weeks. 
Answer by J. 1>. Mitchell. — They remain in chrysalis state in any place suitable 
to protect thciri during w inter ; in spring it comes out a lly, which deposits eggs ; fly 
copulates ; subsists on jui< « s of plants: lives fifteen OT twenty days. 
Answer by S. LEWIS.— They go through the winter in the chrysalis state. After 
eating up the col ton (WJ) they took to the crab-grass in the cornfield and devoured 
it complete ly. Did not discover any change in the color of worm after eating the 
grass. The fly lives .six 01 eight weeks. 
Answer by Dr. 11. Montgomery. — The chrysalis is the medium of perpet nation dur- 
ing ami through winter. The fly eats and copulates. 
Answer by J. II. Davis. — The chrysalis for the most part turns out a lly. but some- 
t imes a cross bet w ecu a chrysalis and worm. This cross goes into the ground and into 
trash ami lays then' (ill spring, or asuitable time, when it conies out a fly. Sometimes, 
When the weather is not suitable, very few develop, and Consequently we have very 
few worms. The fly does not copulate, and does not eat. 
Answer by Thomas Armer. — The fly secretes itself in some warm place, where it 
hides till winter 18 Ovei and warm weather comes to bring it out; male ami female 
lly; copulates, but does not eat. Believes the worm eating up the grass is a totally 
dillcrcnt one from the Cotton Worm. 
Answer by Thomas Kay.— .Believes they pass the winter in the chrysalis state ; have 
frequently seen them plowed up out of the ground ; male and female fly ; fly lives about 
ten days. The worm now eating up the grass is a totally different worm from the Cot- 
ton Worm, it being of a green color and smaller. 
Livingston, Sumter County, Alabama, 
September 5, 1879. 
Maj. J. G. Harris handed me your circular and letter, with request that I should 
reply to the same. I herewith inclose my essay on destroying the Cotton Worm, writ- 
ten in 18/3, which will give my answers to many of the questions. 
