. Injurious insects of the farm and garden. With a chapter on beneficial insects. Insects. OP THE FARM AND GABDBST. 29 hibernates in the chrysalis state. We do not know that it feeds on anything but cabbage, but we once found a male chrysalis fastened to a stalk of the common " Horse N"ettle," {Solanum Carolinense) which was growing in a cemetery with no cabbages within at least a quarter of a THE CABBAGE PLUSIA. (Plusia brassiccB, Eiley.) This is the next most common insect which attacks the Cabbage with us, and curiously enough it has never yet. Fig. 23.—THE CABBAGE PLUSIA {Hu
. Injurious insects of the farm and garden. With a chapter on beneficial insects. Insects. OP THE FARM AND GABDBST. 29 hibernates in the chrysalis state. We do not know that it feeds on anything but cabbage, but we once found a male chrysalis fastened to a stalk of the common " Horse N"ettle," {Solanum Carolinense) which was growing in a cemetery with no cabbages within at least a quarter of a THE CABBAGE PLUSIA. (Plusia brassiccB, Eiley.) This is the next most common insect which attacks the Cabbage with us, and curiously enough it has never yet. Fig. 23.—THE CABBAGE PLUSIA {Huxia brosdcw). ^ a, Larva; b, Chrysalis; c, Moth, male. been described. It is a moth and not a butterfly, and flies by night instead of by day. In the months of Au- gust and September the larva (fig. 23, a), may be found quite abundant on this plant, gnawing large irregular holes in the leaves. It is a pale-green translucent worm, marked longitudinally with still paler more opaque lines, and like all the known larvae of the family to which it belongs, it has but two pair of abdominal pro-legs, the. 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 resemble the original Treat, Mary, b. 1835. New York, Orange Judd
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