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-  “ sembling the red—legged species so closely as not commonly to be · '
  recognized _as a diiferentinsect. I have known them to injure al- ' l
_   falfa at times seyerelyj _ I ` - — . 1
1  _ CurwonMsL—Cutworms of several diHerent species are fond of . Q i?
5  V clover, and do a gooddeal of harm to young growths in the spring ` ’  
l  V of the year. Several other similar insects attack the plants, but the  
l   injury is not very apparent and is generally overlooked. The clover ’ ‘  
2   hay—worm (H ypaopygia ccslalis) is exceedingly common in the  
2  _ State, but attacks ionlyathé clover hay in the stack and loft. The  
2 E;  adult moths, however, are seen in numbers in meadows at times.    
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‘ it  THE Crlovnn Dnasrnma (Dmsferla erechfea).——A gray moth K  
t   with cross bands of black or brown on the fore wings is also gener- _ yy  
3  g ally common in meadows, where it frequently flies up as one walks `  
§  if among the plants. The _worm hatching from the eggs of this moth  
S   ' measures/about an _inch lon-g {when grown; and is brown, lined  
 S length—wise with blackish, whitish and pink. ·It devours the leaves,  
  but is scattered among the plants and, though frequent everywhere,  
'  ii. does not kill outright individual plants, and hence escapes general  
'  i notice. · · ·_ .  
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  THE SULPIIUI}-YELLOW BUTTERFLY (Earymus phllodice)-—  
  Wherever redgclover grows in Kentucky the yellow butterfly with  
..   black-bordered wings is common. Its young is a green worm,»with  
S   some yellow markings and a whitish line along each side. It feeds  
Y Q  upon the leaves, and measures Hnally about one inch long.  
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  ' IPIIE CLOVERQLEAF-LIIDGE (Oecirlmnyjia trifolll) .——A very small  
8   s gnat closely rel_ated to, and much like the Hessian fly of wheat,  
S   often places its eggs ‘on clover leaves, and itsyoung, orange—yellow  
is  · grubs, live in the hollow formed by the leaflets drawing together,  
l  ii the later spin` small whitish cocoons in which the pupal stage is .  
  passed. Writing of this insect reminds me of a communication in  
·-  one of our agricultural papers recently, in which it is claimed that  
“'  F the Hessian fly is the cause of clover failure. The Hessian fly at-  
’·  i tzlicks only cereal grains, and the writer of the communication re-  
~‘   ferred to is certainly mistaken. ‘  
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