. Injurious insects and the use of insecticides [microform] : a new descriptive manual on noxious insects, with methods for their repression . cut-worms are the larvse of several night-flying moths belonging to the genus Agrotis. The adults appear late in summer : they are dull gray or brown with a wing expanse measuring from one and a half to two inches. The wings are marked by two light or whitLsh spots, oneround and the otherkidney-shaped. The female depositsher eggs mostly latein summer, but occa-sionally in the eggs soon hatch Fig. 133.—The Larva and Adult of the Dark- ^^^ *^^
. Injurious insects and the use of insecticides [microform] : a new descriptive manual on noxious insects, with methods for their repression . cut-worms are the larvse of several night-flying moths belonging to the genus Agrotis. The adults appear late in summer : they are dull gray or brown with a wing expanse measuring from one and a half to two inches. The wings are marked by two light or whitLsh spots, oneround and the otherkidney-shaped. The female depositsher eggs mostly latein summer, but occa-sionally in the eggs soon hatch Fig. 133.—The Larva and Adult of the Dark- ^^^ *^^ larvjB enterSIDED Cut-worm. Natural Size. (Garman.) the ground and live on the tender roots ofgrasses and other plants until the approach of cold weather, when theydescend deeper into the earth and remain in a torpid condition throughthe winter. In spring they come to the surface and feed by night ona variety of succulent plants. Several species of cut-worms are known, among which are the greasycut-worm, the dingy cut-worm, the glassy cut-worm, and the climbingcut-worm. Remedies.—Cut-worms are most injurious in sod-land or in fields. VEGETABLES. 159 adjacent to grass land. Birds, especially robins, destroy tbem in vastnumbers when exposed by the plow. The worms generally feed atnight and hide throughthe day under clods,etc., near the places oftheir depredations. Ingardens they may bedug out and destroyed,but in fields a littlefresh clover cut in theevening and droppedin water containingParis green or Londonpurple should be scat-tered among plants. On sod-lauds plowed under for other crops andin fields where cut-worms are suspected in disastrous numbers, usean abundance of seed, that a good stand may be left after the depreda-tions of the worms are over.
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