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“day school superiutend-
i Harper’s Magazine, in
to the children about cru-
animals; said: “Only a
would abuse a creature
no way of protecting it-
Why children,” said she, “I
i knew a little boy who cut off
alf’s tail I Think of it, chil
dren—took a knife and out the
tail right off 1 Can any one tell
me a verse in the Bible that
would have taught this cruel boy
that he should not have cut the
call’s tail?”
After a momen’ts silence, a
. small boy with a ‘ I happy thought’ ’
expression held up his hand.
“What is it, my boy?” asked the
superintendent, hopefully. “What
God hath joined together, let no
man put asunder,” responded the
small boy.
f The superintendent was so im
pressed that he never brought his
own verse to light.
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THE HOME JOURNAL,
PERRY, GA.
Insect That Proves to Be
the Planter’s Friend.
THE CONVERGENT LADY-BUG
Instead of Being Injurious to the Cot
ton Plant This Little Bug Is
of Inestimable Benefit to
Same.
Every one knows that the cotton, in
common with nearly all other kinds of
plants, is subject to the attack of in
sects, but very few realize the im
mense variety of them that depend
more or less upon this" staple for food.
The cotton worm, cotton boll worm,
Mexican cotton boll weevil, cotton
louse, etc., are but a few examples of
the' most common, but fortunately only
a few are at all apt to appear in serious
numbers, and these are very variable
in their appearance. Sometimes they
occur in such abundance as to appear
to jeopardise the entire crop in a
more or less extended area, while’
again their numbers are so insignifi
cant as to pasS unnoticed.
This striking variability is due in
part to a greait many causes, some of
them easy to understand, others more
obscure in their nature. Nothing is of
greater importance, though, than the
weather conditions at certain seasons of
the year. Most insects thrive on a dry
and warm season,- while the opposite
is true of fungous diseases. Last year
the excessive rains and long continued
perlodB 6f cloudy weather made the
conditions very favorable for the latter
mentioned, and the result was an out
break, quite serious in some sections,
of the fungous disease known as cotton
anthraonose. This season the dry and
hot weather which has continued
throughout May and Jane, will, unless
July and August are extremely wet,
render a recurrence of this disease
extremely improbable, but it has been
very favorable to the insects.
Luckily most of the insect pests are
restricted to a few generations per
year, and it will on that account re
quire more than one favorable season
for such varieties to Increase to alarm
ing numbers. A few are, however, dif
fer oh t in their nature, producing a new
generation every ten days or two
weeks, and these sorts will, unless
some other natural cause intervenes,
increase many thousand fold in the
course of a favorable season.
Thq cotton louse belongs to the lat
ter class, This Insect only requires
about ton days to develop from a new
ly born young to an adult capable of
producing .young on its own account,
and the rate of increase would be al
most beyond computation did not nat
ural causes Intervene and prevent
such a disaster. It Is very sp-fe to
say that without such Intervention
this Insect alone would practically
ruin the cotton crop the first season
that it was allowed free sweep. ,
But nature takes cave of her own,
both plants and insects, and such a
calamity as that just mentioned will
probably never take place. So sure as
an insect passes the bounds pre
scribed for it, and threatens serious
destruction of the varieties of plants
which serve as Its food, some ob
stacle arises which prevents further
increase, usually in the form of some
predacious enemy or more commonly
yet, of some dread contagious disease
which sweeps through the insect ar
mies and leaves hardly survivors
enoughh to continue the race. It is
only by some action, of mankind that
the balance of nature is destroyed, as
when some pernicious insect is intro
duced into, a new country, or large
areas of land are made-, to produce
crops not eminently fitted for Just that
locality.
A very good illustration of a natu
ral check to the too rapid increase of
a noxious insect has been called to the
attention of the State Entomological
Departmnt several times of late. The
season, has been especially favorable
for the cotton louse, and many com
plaints have been received concerning
it. Recently, nearly every mail has
brought in descriptions or specimens
of a nejy insect which the planters are
finding in number's on their cotton,
and which they fear is. going to work
them further mischief. Most of these
Inquiries have been from the middle
tier of counties; Washington, Jeffer
son; Twiggs-. Houston, Schhley, Monro3
and Marion, but other sendings were
from further south. It is With a great
deal of pleasure that
we are enabled to as
sure our cofrespou
dents that for once
there is no harm to
be apprehended from
the abundance of the insect
in question, but most decidedly the
contrary. It proves to be one of the
, true lady-bugs, known as the Conver
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converging white Tines on the black
area just back of the head, and like
all others of its family which I have
yet found inhabiting Georgia, is bene-
ficial in its nature. All of them feed
largely, if not exclusively, upon the
different kinds of scale insects and
plant lice, and this one which has sev.
eral times before been notioed preying
upon the plantllce infesting fruit trees
has attacked the cotton louse this sea
son ’in a very. business-like manner
Figure 1 represents the adult winged
insect enlarged about twice. Figure
2 represents one of the young, also
somewhat enlarged, as they may be
found crawling about over the leaves.
Both the young and
the adult are very
voractious, and devour
immense quantities
of lice. Figure 3 Is of the inter
mediate resting stage known as the
pupa, enlarged. This Is bright orange
in color, with black spots, and may
be found attached to the leaves and
stems of cotton, or other louse in
fested plants. The specimen from
which the drawing was made was at
tached to a leaflet of locust growing
beneath a large plum tree which was
covered with lipe. It Is specimens of
this form which are more commonly
sent us for determination, oftentimes
15 or 20 being attached to the tip of a
cotton stalk, and nearly always on
arrival some of them will have hatched
into active individuals like figure 1
The eggs, which are not represented
In the figures, are pale orange in color,
and are laid In little clusters in situ
ations where the young, which are
very -strong anad active from the
first, will have no difficulty in finding
food. Two or th^ee weeks, if the
weather is favorable and food- abund
ant, will be sufficient for their entire
transformation, and they will pass suc
cessively through larger and larger
stages of active crawling larvae, then
through the resting stage, or pupa, and
finally becoming active again, they ac
quire wings, and are ready to lay eggs
for another and
more numerous
generation. I n
the autumn,
when the food supply becomes
scarce and finally exhausted, the
full grown lady bugs seek shel
tered places in the woodjf; under
the rough bark of trees, amonggst
dried leaves, etc., and in the earliest
s-pri-ng come forth in numbers greatly
diminished by the hardships of the
winter, but with courage unabated.
As- an illustration of the queer places
which they choose for winter quarters,
I once found a large colony, perhaps
numbering hundreds, snugly ensconced
amongst the bases of the leaves which
thickly covered the twigs of a young
long leaved pine.
In conclusion, regarding the appear-
anco of these insects in cotton fields,
I would repeat that there can be no
question as to their beneficial nature.
Every one of them represents the
death of hundreds of cotton lice, and
the prevention of future generations of
thousaands. Though these pests may
still be numerous and doing some in
jury, it must not be forgotten that
Were It not for the check given by
their enemy they would be present in
munbers that might not injure merely,
but destroy. Protect them, therefore,
and do nothing that will hinder them
in their good work.—State Depart
ment of Agriculture, W. F. Fiske,
Assistant Entomologist.
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