. The Bulletin of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture. Agriculture -- North Carolina. The Bulletin. 57 Cutworms. The cricket drags the plant after it is cut off into its tunnel. By this means the work of this insect may be readily dis- tinguished from the work of Fig. 44.—Nymph of the Little Brown Burrowing Cricket, enlarged. (Photograph by the author.) Practically our whole knowledge of this insect as a tobacco pest is contained in a letter by Mr. 1ST. H. Paschall, of Kidgeway, Warren County, N. C, who writes, complaining of this cricket, under date of March 31, 1908, as f
. The Bulletin of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture. Agriculture -- North Carolina. The Bulletin. 57 Cutworms. The cricket drags the plant after it is cut off into its tunnel. By this means the work of this insect may be readily dis- tinguished from the work of Fig. 44.—Nymph of the Little Brown Burrowing Cricket, enlarged. (Photograph by the author.) Practically our whole knowledge of this insect as a tobacco pest is contained in a letter by Mr. 1ST. H. Paschall, of Kidgeway, Warren County, N. C, who writes, complaining of this cricket, under date of March 31, 1908, as follows: «* * * We have a new brown cricket here that lives in the ground and piles up dirt at its hole something like an ant, that promises to give us a lot of trouble with tobacco which has been transplanted. They cut the plant off and then pull it into their tunnels. It is almost impossible to get a stand where these crickets are in the ground. They are more plentiful this year than I have ever seen ; This species of cricket is southern in its distribution, being an inhabitant of the tropics. It seems to prefer fields that have lain bare over winter. It digs small, round tunnels into the bare ground, often to great depths, sometimes as much as 20 inches or more, piling the dirt removed in a little mound to one side of the hole. The in- sect seems to have a voracious appetite, cutting off many plants and dragging them to its tunnel. It by no means confines its attention to tobacco, but seems to eat any green food available. It is espe- cially troublesome, according to Mr. Paschall, to plants such as cab- bage, collards, tomatoes, and tobacco, which are transplanted early. Dr. Howard reports a case in South Carolina where this species bo- came very injurious to early Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly
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