INSECTS AND INSECTICIDES. 
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season are affected more or less. The imagoes are leav- 
ing the affected seeds in large numbers this fall, so that 
our crop of these pests will be lessened next season. The 
habits of this weevil are generally well understood by 
gardeners, so that a brief description of its mode of life 
will be sufficient. The weevil passes the winter in the 
peas, emerging therefrom about seeding time. As soon 
as the pods are formed and the seeds set within them, the 
weevil punctures the pod opposite each pea, and inserts 
therein an egg which becomes a grub, feeding on the rich 
store of food within. Here they remain during the win¬ 
ter, changing to the perfect insect in the fall, or before 
planting time in the spring. 
Remedies —The only known remedy for this enemy of 
the pea is based upon a knowdedge of its habits. These 
insects usually remain in the peas all winter, so that if 
the affected stock is kept over another season in tight 
vessels, the beetles are of course destroyed. This is a 
simple remedy, and if those having stock affected would 
unite to do this, the evil would be very much lessened in 
this State. 
THE SOUTHERN CABBAGE BUTTERFLY (PieVlS protodke). 
The larva of this butterfly is the most injurious of the 
cabbage caterpillars to the gardener in Colorado. It was 
present in this State the past season in force, flitting over 
fields of cabbages in increased numbers over previous years. 
Of other cabbage worms we noted : Pieris orleracea , Pluvia 
brassicce and Ceramica picta , though not in numbers suf¬ 
ficient to cause much damage. The latter species I have taken 
on the soft maple. The color of the male of protodice is a 
white with dark bars and spots on the front wings, hind wings 
without spots; on the underside the bars and spots are 
repeated, the tips tinged greenish yellow ; the veins of the 
hind wings behind are greenish yellow, spotted with brown 
scales. The female is of the same color, the dark markings 
