Annual report of the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station . Fig. 7.—Showing the work of the Angoumois Grain Moth, as often seen in October—slightly enlarged. attack meal or food products, but lives in the whole grain, a singlekernel of corn often furnishing food for two or three larvae. Thecharacteristic appearance of an infested ear of corn, as sometimesfound in the field during October or November, is shown in Fig. 8 shows an ear from which several generations of moths haveemerged, such specimens being frequently found in two-year-old moths are seen in Fig. 9, the m
Annual report of the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station . Fig. 7.—Showing the work of the Angoumois Grain Moth, as often seen in October—slightly enlarged. attack meal or food products, but lives in the whole grain, a singlekernel of corn often furnishing food for two or three larvae. Thecharacteristic appearance of an infested ear of corn, as sometimesfound in the field during October or November, is shown in Fig. 8 shows an ear from which several generations of moths haveemerged, such specimens being frequently found in two-year-old moths are seen in Fig. 9, the male always being of smallersize. In color they are light grayish-brown, with lines of black, and CORN WEEVILS AND OTHER GRAIN INSECTS. 15. FlG. 8.—Ear of corn from which several generations of the Angoumois Grain Moth haveemerged—slightly reduced. 16 N. C. AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. measure across the expanded fore wings a little over one-half front wings bear a fringe of long hairs on the anal edge, and thehind wings bear a continuous border of the same. The moths are verydelicate, easily crushed and readily killed by poisonous fumes.
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