. Injurious insects of the orchard, vineyard, field, garden, conservatory, household, storehouse, domestic animals, etc., with remedies for their extermination . two light straw-coloredlines; all of the wings are margined with deep orange;expands about ten lines. Fig. 281. —Clover-hay Fig. 281. \\orm; i, Ijack view ofone of the worms ; ^, sideview of the same (bothsuspended by silkenthreads) — color, brown-ish ; 7, a worm in itssilken tube; 4, the pupa—color, honey-yellow ; S,the cocoon—color, whi-tish ; 6, the moth with itswings expanded; 6, thesame with its wings closed—colors, grayish purpl
. Injurious insects of the orchard, vineyard, field, garden, conservatory, household, storehouse, domestic animals, etc., with remedies for their extermination . two light straw-coloredlines; all of the wings are margined with deep orange;expands about ten lines. Fig. 281. —Clover-hay Fig. 281. \\orm; i, Ijack view ofone of the worms ; ^, sideview of the same (bothsuspended by silkenthreads) — color, brown-ish ; 7, a worm in itssilken tube; 4, the pupa—color, honey-yellow ; S,the cocoon—color, whi-tish ; 6, the moth with itswings expanded; 6, thesame with its wings closed—colors, grayish purple and yellow. The larvie or caterpillars of this moth are sometimes verydestructive to clover-hay, especially to that which has stood inthe stack for several years. They are most abundant in thebottom of the stack, where the infested hay will frequentlybe found to be webbed together by the silken tubes whichthey spin for a habitation in which to INSECTS INFHSTING CORN. CHAP. The Wire Worm 193 Cut Worms (Agrotis) 194 The White Grub (Lachnofterna quercina).19o The Corn Worm {Heliotkis ariiiigera) 19(5 The Corn Aphis {Aphis tnaidis) 197 The following- insects also infest Corn:Crane Flies (Tipala).The StalU Borer (Gortyna nitela).The Chinch Bug (Micropua leucojjterus).Tlie Army Worm (Leucania Yellow Bear (Spiloaoina virginicu).The California Locust (Qidipoda atrox). CHAPTER CXCIII. The Wire , Coleoptera ; Family, Elaterid^. [Feeding upon the roots of wheat, oats, corn, potatoes, andmany other plants; a nearly cylindrical reddish or yellowish-brown six-legged larva or worm.] Fig. 282. —Wire-worms and Snap-ping-beetles ; 3, Ela-ter obscurus, enlarged(natural size indi-cated at 4) — color,black or brown; 2,E. lineatus, enlarged(natural size indi-cated at 1) — color,grayish-brown, withdarker lines; 5, , natural size; 6, the same enlarged—color, blackish; 10, the pupa of a wire-worm, enlarged
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