boll-worm

Other insects that destroy garden vegetables are the well-known green cabbage-worm, the harlequin cabbage-bug, the cabbage hairworm, the asparagus-beetle, the squash-bug, the squash-vine borer, the striped cucumber or melon beetle, the melon aphis, the corn boll-worm, the cornstalk borer and many others.

Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation Mary Huston Gregory

The next most important is the boll-worm or ear-worm.

Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation Mary Huston Gregory

The boll-worm is chiefly destructive in the Southwest and does damage to the extent of $12,000,000.

Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation Mary Huston Gregory

The principal insect enemies of cotton are the cotton boll-weevil, the boll-worm, the cotton red spider, and the cotton-leaf worm.

Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation Mary Huston Gregory

But, next to a three years 'drought and the boll-worm, the Actual Settler hated the Land-shark.

Whirligigs O. Henry 1886

It salubrified the atmosphere when that lamentable boll-worm took his departure.

The Gentle Grafter O. Henry 1886

The ally of this vicious destroyer of the planter's fondest hopes is the boll-worm moth, a tawny creature who in the summer and autumn evenings hovers over the cotton-blooms and deposits a single egg in each flower.

The Great South; A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland 1875

As the mouth progressed, the disastrous effects of the drouth were more apparent, find in addition to this, the boll-worm and fly were beginning to seriously affect the plant along the bottom lands of Mississippi and

First Annual Statement of the Trade and Commerce of Memphis, for the Year ending August 31, 1861. Reported to the Memphis Chamber of Commerce by Jno. S. Toof, Secretary. Tenn. 1861