. The Bulletin of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture. Agriculture -- North Carolina. 12 The Bulletin. It is utterly useless to try to poisou the cabbage louse (or any of the plant lice for that matter) with Paris green. The louse simply can not eat the Paris green even if it tried to do so. It is a sucking insect. CUTWORMS. {Several Species.) Order Lepidoptera, Family Noctuidcp. Description.—Eather stout-bodied, soft, brown, blackish or grayish caterpillars, which remain concealed during the day and do damage at night by eating off young plants at or near the surface of the ground. I
. The Bulletin of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture. Agriculture -- North Carolina. 12 The Bulletin. It is utterly useless to try to poisou the cabbage louse (or any of the plant lice for that matter) with Paris green. The louse simply can not eat the Paris green even if it tried to do so. It is a sucking insect. CUTWORMS. {Several Species.) Order Lepidoptera, Family Noctuidcp. Description.—Eather stout-bodied, soft, brown, blackish or grayish caterpillars, which remain concealed during the day and do damage at night by eating off young plants at or near the surface of the ground. Injury in North Carolina.—Cutworms are a common pest every- where on all kinds of transplanted crops as well as cotton, corn and others. Cabbage suffers badly from their attacks, especially in the spring; and they are more severe in their injuries during the cool spells after they once become active. Distribution.—Cutworms are destructive in all sections, and there are a number of different kinds of them. The exact species of cutworms in North Carolina might not be the same as in some other States, yet "cutworms" are a common nuisance everywhere, and every bulletin on garden insects, whether from east or west, north or south, United States or Canada, makes mention of these pests. Life History.—All our species of cutworms are the caterpillar (larvse) stage of certain kinds of night-flying moths or "; The adult parent moths are usually brown or grayish in color (with hind wings lighter) and measure from 1 to 2 inches from tip to tip when the wings are spread. These moths begin to appear in early Fio. 2.—Granulated Cutworm, ouc ul uui dcsLructnc species. Showing the cutworm extended and curled up. About natural size. (Photo by Z. P. Metcalf.) in late May and June, and continue to be common until November. The moths lay their eggs mostly in grassy or weedy places, and these eggs hatch to tiny little cutworms which feed on the gras
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