. The Bulletin of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture. Agriculture -- North Carolina. 36 The Bulletin. and a darker and broader one on each side, appearing at times in hordes of countless thousands, devouring vegetation of various kinds, but espe- cially grains and grasses. The adult moths spread about IV2 inches from tip to tip of the wings and are brownish-yellow in color. Injury in North Carolina.—Very few outbreaks of this insect have been reported to us, although it is certainly present in at least limited numbers every year. Adult moths are often found at Kaleigh from May to JST
. The Bulletin of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture. Agriculture -- North Carolina. 36 The Bulletin. and a darker and broader one on each side, appearing at times in hordes of countless thousands, devouring vegetation of various kinds, but espe- cially grains and grasses. The adult moths spread about IV2 inches from tip to tip of the wings and are brownish-yellow in color. Injury in North Carolina.—Very few outbreaks of this insect have been reported to us, although it is certainly present in at least limited numbers every year. Adult moths are often found at Kaleigh from May to JSTovem- ber. We have one adult moth captured by the writer at Hendersonville in June, 1907. The indications are that it occurs throughout the State, but that its area of de- structiveness is chiefly in the western half. In 1907, three complaints of damage by it were received from the mountains, but in no case was the outbreak re- ported as widespread. The complaints were all in May. In August, 1908, while the writer was in the western part of the State on Institute work, news of an "Army- worm" outbreak came from Durham, IST. C, and this was looked into by Assistant Z. P. Metcalf, some of whose observations will be presented later in this account. Life-history, Habits, etc.—There are undoubtedly sev- eral broods of this insect each year, for at Raleigh the moths have been collected from May to November by Mr. Fig. 11.—Army- worm (larva) on head of timothy. Nat- ural size. (After C o m- stock, D i V. E n t., U. S. Dept. Agr.). Fig. 12.—Army-worm moth, pupa and eggs on grass stem. Natural size. (After Comstock, Div. Ent., U. S. Dept. Agr.) C. S. Brimley. Dr. Forbes^ states that only one brood is apt to be de- structive in any one locality in any one year. This agrees with the reports which have come to us; and observations in 1908 indicate that there is a good reason. It is believed that the winter is spent in the 'An excellent account which I have consulted in th
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