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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
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Many insect larvæ, as the tomato worm and the cabbage-worm, are of the same colour as the plants on which they feed, and this enables them to escape detection by birds.
Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study Ontario. Ministry of Education
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In June, have the pupils, by means of the insect net, catch a number of the white butterflies, the adults of the cabbage-worm.
Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study Ontario. Ministry of Education
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Observations on the habits and the ravages of common noxious insects, as cabbage-worm, grasshopper, tussock-moth, etc.; discussion of means of checking these insects.
Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study Ontario. Ministry of Education
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Its texture is coarse and hard, and the variety really possesses little merit; though it is somewhat extensively grown in warm latitudes, where it appears to be less liable to the attacks of the cabbage-worm than any other sort.
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The most troublesome enemies attacking these plants are: the flea - beetle, the cabbage-worm, the cabbage-maggot (root) and "club-root"; directions for fighting all of which will be found in the following chapter.
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The cabbage-worm (larva of the white butterfly shown in Fig. 295) can be dispatched with pyrethrum or kerosene emulsion.
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Home gardeners know this nontoxic, nonchemical pesticide as Thuricide (or Dipel), an extremely effective weapon against cabbage-worm caterpillars.
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The white butterfly that lays the eggs for the cabbage-worm.]
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