Report of the Commissioners . Fig. 19. Fig. 20. Of which Fir/. 19 shews the caterpillar, and Fig. 20 the moth. [Mr. £ethu7ie.] ^2 INSECTS AND INSECTIVOROUS BIRDS. -this name in popular phraseology, but the insectwhich the entomologists regard as thearmy worm is a very common caterpillar, turning into a moth, and which is found all overthis country and in Europe, but especially in the United States. Long Island is one ofits most famous habitats. HABITS OF THE ARMY WORM. This insect, so far as its habits are thoroughly known, feeds chiefly upon wild grassesof all kinds, and upon the grass of moi
Report of the Commissioners . Fig. 19. Fig. 20. Of which Fir/. 19 shews the caterpillar, and Fig. 20 the moth. [Mr. £ethu7ie.] ^2 INSECTS AND INSECTIVOROUS BIRDS. -this name in popular phraseology, but the insectwhich the entomologists regard as thearmy worm is a very common caterpillar, turning into a moth, and which is found all overthis country and in Europe, but especially in the United States. Long Island is one ofits most famous habitats. HABITS OF THE ARMY WORM. This insect, so far as its habits are thoroughly known, feeds chiefly upon wild grassesof all kinds, and upon the grass of moist meadows and marshes, at times being excessively^abundant. MIGRATIONS OF THE ARMY WORM. So abundant does it sometimes become in its own locality that, like the chinch-bug,and the locust of the west, and many other insects, it sets out to find fresh order to do this, the insects assemble in very large numbers, and they all seem to gowith one accord in a certain direction, as if they were a regularly marshalled a
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