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Six species of cotton insects, along with an assortment of thrips, fruit moths, leaf hoppers, caterpillars, mites, aphids, wireworms, and many others now are able to ignore the farmer’s assault with chemical sprays.

In a fresh state it is poisonous and fatal to vegetation, and is often used for this reason to dress land infested with wireworms, grubs, club-root fungus, &c.

The larvæ of the Elateridæ, known as wireworms, are long and slender, with short legs.

This consists of grain, seeds, an enormous quantity of wireworms, small insects, especially ants and their eggs, and green herbage.

By growing mustard and ploughing it in green the ground is made obnoxious to the wireworms, and may even be cleared of them.