Insect pests of farm, garden and orchard . lars, covered with black and red hairs, has frequently strippedcotton of foliage in Texas, as does the Fall Army Worm (see pagelis), when it becomes locally overabundant. Many other speciesmight be mentioned which do more or less local injury. * Deilephiln lineata Fab. Family Loxostege similalia Guen. Family Estigmene acraea Drury. Family Arctiidoe 248 INSECT PESTS OF FARM, GARDEN AND ORCHARD The Cotton Square-borer * Just as the cotton squares commence to form they are oftenbored into by a small green caterpillar which many p
Insect pests of farm, garden and orchard . lars, covered with black and red hairs, has frequently strippedcotton of foliage in Texas, as does the Fall Army Worm (see pagelis), when it becomes locally overabundant. Many other speciesmight be mentioned which do more or less local injury. * Deilephiln lineata Fab. Family Loxostege similalia Guen. Family Estigmene acraea Drury. Family Arctiidoe 248 INSECT PESTS OF FARM, GARDEN AND ORCHARD The Cotton Square-borer * Just as the cotton squares commence to form they are oftenbored into by a small green caterpillar which many plantersconsider a stage of the Ijollworm and which others have calledthe sharpshooter. This injury is often quite serious on asmall area, as we have seen 10 per cent of the stalks entirelydenuded of squares in small fields in Texas where this insect wasabundant. The little caterpillars hollow out the squares in thesame manner as does the bollworm, often destroying all of thoseon a plant knee-high and even boring into the tender stalk. The. Fig. 176.—The cotton square-borer {Uranotes melimis Hbn.): a, adult;b, underwing of same; c, larva; d, pupa—natural size, (.\fter Howard,U. S. Dept. Agr.) caterpillars are bright green, oval, decidedly flattenetl, coveredwith short hairs which give them a velvety appearance, and withthe head retracted under the front of the body, thus being quiteunlike any stage of the bollworm. They are the larvae of a daintylittle butterfly (Fig. 176), of a bluish-black color, with dark red-dish lustre, and with bright red spots on the posterior borderof the hind wings, common around cotton-fields. The smallyellowish, transparent eggs are laid on the leaves and stems ofcotton, cow-peas, goat-weed, and various weeds, and the larva?have also been found on hops, beans and cow-peas, seeming to * Uranotes melinus Hbn. Family Lycoenidoe. INSECTS INJURIOUS TO COTTON 249 prefer the latter to cotton. The eggs hatch in from two to fivedays, the larvae become grow
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