. The American entomologist. Entomology. THE A]\IERICAN EN'J'OMOLOGIST. Damage to Wheat : Worm boring^ in the Stalk.—Inclosed I send you a niamiot or worm new to me, and which I found in my wheat, and still it may be an old enemy. Yon will find in the inclosed vial samples of the stalk or joint where the maggot was laid or the mature worm '• has entered. It is the first joint below the head. One of the worms is out in the vial, another is tied in the stalk. I send also samples of the shrunken berry or blaster. The head turns yel- low, as if ripe. I have noticed in a number of fields a great ma
. The American entomologist. Entomology. THE A]\IERICAN EN'J'OMOLOGIST. Damage to Wheat : Worm boring^ in the Stalk.—Inclosed I send you a niamiot or worm new to me, and which I found in my wheat, and still it may be an old enemy. Yon will find in the inclosed vial samples of the stalk or joint where the maggot was laid or the mature worm '• has entered. It is the first joint below the head. One of the worms is out in the vial, another is tied in the stalk. I send also samples of the shrunken berry or blaster. The head turns yel- low, as if ripe. I have noticed in a number of fields a great many such heads within a day or two. A very serious damage is being done to wheat, especially the later varieties, and where the winter injured it so as to make it ripen late. I think the Hessian liy is also working in some places badly. I ha\'e not discovered much dam- age in my Fultz wheat, which will be a few days earlier than the inclosed being of this variety.—A. , Mill port, ChemnngCo., The worm so injurious to your wheat by boring in the stalks, is what is popularly known as the Stalk-borer, the larva of a night-fiying moth {Gor- ty>ia nitela Guen., Fig. 107). It bores in the stems [Kig.'.lO'. GoRTVNA : 1, moth ; 2, larva (after Riley). of potato vines and a number of other plants, sometimes doing considerable damage, and is also known to infest in the same way corn, pie- plants, several garden flowers, and other plants. It has for some time been known to injure wheat, and an e,\.cellent account of it was published by Miss Emily A. Smith, in the 7th Illinois Entomo- logical Report by Prof. Cyrus Thomas, p. 112. Larvae from Stomach of Blue Bird.—S. A. F., Normal, 111.—The Coleopterous larva you send from the stomach of a Blue Bird is that of Meracantha contractu (Beauv). We first raised it in May, 1S66. The larva, which is not uncom- mon in rotten logs in the western States, is easily distinguished from other Tenebrionid larvx wit
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