Entomology for beginners; for the use of young folks, fruitgrowers, farmers, and gardeners; . talk-borer (Gortyna nitela Guenee).—Boring inthe stalks of corn, potato, tomato, etc., a caterpillar of a palelivid hue, with light stripes along the body; also sometimesboring into the cob of growing Indian corn. This worm also bores in dahlia and aster stalks, and maybe cut out with a penknife, and the split in the stalk willheal by being closed with a piece of thread. Besides these pests, corn is often attacked by the chinch-bug, and sometimes by the boll-worm, as well as the cater-pillars of the l
Entomology for beginners; for the use of young folks, fruitgrowers, farmers, and gardeners; . talk-borer (Gortyna nitela Guenee).—Boring inthe stalks of corn, potato, tomato, etc., a caterpillar of a palelivid hue, with light stripes along the body; also sometimesboring into the cob of growing Indian corn. This worm also bores in dahlia and aster stalks, and maybe cut out with a penknife, and the split in the stalk willheal by being closed with a piece of thread. Besides these pests, corn is often attacked by the chinch-bug, and sometimes by the boll-worm, as well as the cater-pillars of the lo and Arge moths. Injuring the Cotton-plant. The Cotton Army-worm (Aletia aryillacea Hiibner).-This caterpillar often feeds in vast numbers on the leaves ofthe cotton-plant. It has a looping gait; is slightly hairy, green, dotted with black alonga subdorsal yellowish line, withblack dots beneath; and changesto a pale-reddish-brown insect, as shown by Riley, never hibernates in either ofthe first three states of egg,larva, or chrysalis, and it sur-vives the winter in the moth or. FIG. 244. — Cotton-wormmoth. egg and imago state only in the southernportion of the cotton belt. The moth, he adds, hiber- INSECTS INJURIOUS TO AGRICULTURE. 201 nates principally under the shelter of rank wire-grass inthe more heavily timbered portions of the South, and beginslaying its eggs (400 to 500 in number) on the ratoou cottonwhen this is only an inch or two high. The localitieswhere it hibernates, and where consequently the earliestworms appear, seem to be more common in the westernpart of the cotton belt (Texas) than in the Atlantic cottonStates. It is inferred that from this region the moths emi-grate east and north, laying their eggs later than the originalTexan brood, as in Alabama, Georgia, and northward. Therecently hatched worms of different sizes were found late inMarch on ratoon cotton in southern Georgia and Florida,and in late seasons from the middle of April to the midd
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