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protection where they make hairy cocoons in which they change to 
chrysalids’ These cocoons are made of hairs from their own bodies 
and they are held together by the manner in which 
placed together, without being interwoven with silk. At the time 
when they are ready to undergo this transformation they may be see^ 
crawling in various directions, seeking places ot shelter. This brood 
emerges from the chrysalid state about the first of August, bu tr e 
second brood passes the winter in the chrysalid state to come out m ilay 
of the following season. . , 
Remedies —The same artificial remedies that are given tor the de- 
straction of the Yellow Bear in the next article will apply here 
Should they become numerous in grass or corn lands the mos e e 
means of destroying the chrysalids will be to burn the stubble late m 
tM 1 or m Boon «J dry enough in the spring, as there is usual^ 
enough matter even in our corn-fields to accomplish this. SI 
there not be old straw can be scattered over the ground. Like the Y el 
low Bear the parasites to the caterpillar are of great service m keep¬ 
ing it in check. (For scientific description see part second of this re 
port.) 
the VIRGINIA ERMINE moth. (Hpilosoma Virginica. Fabr.) 
Th e e cltlnfilafto'whicli^Harris gave the name of Yellow Bear 
•i i riiifrihntpd and is found from June to October eatmg a grtat 
IS 'V^ely distributed, and ismunair doeg gerious damag e to 
SrfrLe vtes by denudhr“hem of their foliage; in the garden it 
destroys the young peas, beans, cabbages and sweet corn; m the fields 
it helvis the other destroyers to lessen the stand of corn, and, like t 
wo^m^at destroyed’ Jonah’s gourd, it attacks the morning glories 
t1iqt .,ff ord shade and ornament to our homes. In fact it eats many 
kinds of young and tender leaves without apparent discrimination, 
thoimh I fount! in my observations during the past season that it pe 
sistentlv refused to eat the rough leaved varieties of grape. 
TMs larva is a rough hairy caterpillar about an inch and a hal 
Ion" varying in color from pale creamy white to dark h ro wn maii} 
blaik with a transverse line^am e ^l“« re or ^Xed to dif 
were whUet^them dSrttt?'XhfreTe^^ 
worms in a season, the two somewhat intermixing by the 
obtained, and they hatch in about six days. The lan a perio 
