Report on miscellaneous cotton insects in Texas . 15 July 3 College Station, Tex March 26-29 .. April 28 April 22 a 20 May 18 a Two specimens. The average date of pupation of the hibernated larvae Avas, there-fore, about April 25, and thus the moths would emerge about the middle of May. Very evidentlythe moth emerging July 3 is of asecond brood. The worms were observed feed-ing upon onions, cabbage, potatoes,and cotton. A moth was taken atCollege Station, May 11, 1903. Several pupa? were parasitized bythe tachinid fly (Go?ila capitataDeG.), the first specimens of whichemerged May 7. Previous r
Report on miscellaneous cotton insects in Texas . 15 July 3 College Station, Tex March 26-29 .. April 28 April 22 a 20 May 18 a Two specimens. The average date of pupation of the hibernated larvae Avas, there-fore, about April 25, and thus the moths would emerge about the middle of May. Very evidentlythe moth emerging July 3 is of asecond brood. The worms were observed feed-ing upon onions, cabbage, potatoes,and cotton. A moth was taken atCollege Station, May 11, 1903. Several pupa? were parasitized bythe tachinid fly (Go?ila capitataDeG.), the first specimens of whichemerged May 7. Previous record*.—This speciesfirst received careful considerationin this country by Riley/ whosummarizes the knowledge of thespecies at the time of his writing, and describes the larva? and states that there is either a dual method of hibernation or it isdouble brooded. He records pupa? received from a cotton field atAmericus, Ga., April 22, from which moths emerged April 24, 1879,and a pupa from Virginia Point, Tex., received December 3, from. Fig. 1.—Agrotis ypsilon: a, larva; ?», head ofsame, c, adult—natural size (after Riley &Howard). «1869: First Rept. St. Ent, Mo., pp. 80-81,Comm. Agr. f. 1884, pp. 294-295. 28; and 1885: Ann. Rept. U. S. THE GREASY CUTWORM. 9 which the moth emerged December 6. In Missouri full-grown larvae were found as early as May 1, but in no case did the moth- from thememerge until July. In his eighth report Lintner has discussed thisspecies as an onion pest. The first larva pupated June Mi and themoth emerged July 12, while other larva? pupated July 1 and 6. Con-cerning the time of appearance of the moths he states: I have taken it as early as May 80, and in collections made by me at sugar,have observed it every night through the months of June, July, and August, on overhalf the nights of September, and until the last week in October. The species was reported as injurious to cotton in Mississippi Grarmanc states that the larvae are
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