. An address upon farm pests, including insects, Fungi, and animalcules . Fig. 22. Fig. Pieris Rapa. Fig. 23, butterfly of the cabbage-worm, male. Fig. 24, female. The female is distin-guished from the male by having two round spots, rarely three, on the wings. The body ofthis butterfly is black above, with white wings, a, cabbage-worm; b, chrysalis. This worm, the product of the rape-butterfly, is the great pestof the cabbage-grower, and doubtless the worst of all ourimported insects. It was imported from England to Quebec in1857, as it is supposed, with a quantity of cabbage
. An address upon farm pests, including insects, Fungi, and animalcules . Fig. 22. Fig. Pieris Rapa. Fig. 23, butterfly of the cabbage-worm, male. Fig. 24, female. The female is distin-guished from the male by having two round spots, rarely three, on the wings. The body ofthis butterfly is black above, with white wings, a, cabbage-worm; b, chrysalis. This worm, the product of the rape-butterfly, is the great pestof the cabbage-grower, and doubtless the worst of all ourimported insects. It was imported from England to Quebec in1857, as it is supposed, with a quantity of cabbages; but it wasso sparse that none were seen until 1859, and so rapid was itsincrease that in 1864 it had extended at least forty miles inevery direction from Quebec, and it was estimated that it caused 35 a loss of the cabbage crop that would have sold for at least twohundred and fifty thousand dollars. In England and Europe, it is the butterfly everywhere common ;its larva is the dread of every cook, as she expects to cookseveral with every cabbage, notwithstanding her
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