The More Important Insect Injuries to Indian Corn; General Introduction to the Subject, and Discussion of Insects Injurious to the Plant Above Ground - Tapa blanda

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ... in New York, the latter treating it in his Ninth Report under the name of the corn cutworm. It is essentially a northern species, very abundant in the northern United States and Canada, but less common in central Illinois and south_ ward. The caterpillar hides in the earth by day, / cuts off the plants by night about half an inch fljggajskgjlll above ground (and not below the surface, as do HHHRBQHr the Hadenas), and drags the leaves into its hole WProMT to feed upon them during the day. T, Z. There is but one brood a year, and the cut Fig. 17. The Common J' striped Cutworm (.Euxoa worms pass the winter about half-grown, becom tesaeUata), adult.' ing most destructive in the latter part of May and the first of June. The moths (Fig. 17) are most abundant early in July. They have been taken in Iowa from early June to the beginning of August, and in Canada during the latter half of July and all of the following month. The Red-backed Cutworm. Euxoa ochrogaster Guen. This is a very well-marked species, the caterpillar quite large, more than an inch and a half long, gray or dull brown, with a broad sienna-red stripe down the middle of the back. It is a Canada cutworm especially, ranging from Prince Edward Island to British Columbia, and often excessively abundant in that latitude. It is less abundant in the northern United States, and is not reported from localities farther south than Missouri, Colorado, and California. It is regarded by Fletcher as the worst corn pest among the Canadian cutworms. It is also particularly troublesome in gardens, attacking all garden vegetables and flowering annuals. It has not been found by us in corn in Illinois, and is, so far as our observations go, scarcely to be regarded as an economic species in...