"Army worm" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Bend the negroes were not as successful as at Helena—much of the cotton crop being destroyed by the "army worm." It is possible that the return of peace may cause a discontinuance of the policy of leasing ...
— Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field • Thomas W. Knox
... the room—some at small tables, some at large tables —the worshipers sit, in their eyes that resolute, concentrated look which is the peculiar property of the British luncher, ex-President Roosevelt's man-eating fish, and the American army worm. ...
— Something New • Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
... corn are the chinch bug, corn-root worm (Diabrotica longicornis), bill bug, wire worm, boll-worm or ear-worm, cut-worm, army worm, stalk worm, grasshopper, and plant lice, in all a total of about fifty important species! Several of these pests work secretly. At husking time the wretched ear-worm that ruins the terminal quarter or fifth of an immense number of ears, is painfully ...
— Our Vanishing Wild Life - Its Extermination and Preservation • William T. Hornaday |
