The root maggot is sometimes very destructive, both with cabbage and cauliflower.
As a last resort the radish-bed must be removed to new ground, as the maggotrenders radishes wholly unsalable.
The centipede along the threshold crept, The cobweb hung across in mazy tangle, And in its winding-sheet the maggot slept, At every nook and angle.
The walnut husk maggot can be controlled by spraying the trees with lead arsenate or cryolite the latter part of July and again 3 to 4 weeks later.
Walnut Husk Maggot The walnut husk maggot[15] attacks black and English walnuts, butternuts, and a few other nuts.
The cherry fruit maggotis probably responsible for most of the "wormy" cherries in New York but the plum curculio is also a cause of "wormy" fruits and in some seasons is a most formidable pest.
It is important to be able to distinguish in wormy cherries the grub of the curculio from the cherry fruit maggot in order to know and understand the nature of the two enemies in combating them.
As regards the mode in which the maggot gained access to the child in Horne’s case, it was not easy to decide; but in the case of the girl Riordan the mode of ingress was sufficiently explained.
Professional men often confound it with the palisade worm, and it has even been mistaken for the rat-tail maggot (Helophilus).
In like manner, when, on the 7th, I raised the lid of the box, and found the maggot on the surface of the soil, it almost instantly proceeded to bury itself.
But these remarkable changes are surely secondary, adaptive, and peculiar, like the footless maggot itself, whose conversion into a swift-flying imago renders necessary so complete a reconstruction.
This maggotof a Miggott has been eatin' into her young affections, see?
Had Susan and he suffered pangs unforgettable in order that their child should forsake them for this maggot of a Miggott?
As an extreme contrast to this campodeiform type, we take the maggot of the house-fly (fig.
It is true, that the immediate transition of the maggot is into a pupa, then into an ant, which is furnished with a kind of case, from which the wings emerge for their perfect transformation into the fly or imago state.
She's got somemaggot in her brain, and she wants to air it.
Frightful, malignant ulcers appeared in other parts of the body; the ever-present maggot flies laid eggs in these, and soon worms swarmed therein.
The loathsome maggot flies swarmed about the bakery, and dropped into the trough where the dough was being mixed, so that it was rare to get a ration of bread not contaminated with a few of them.
The sand upon which they lay was dry and burning as that of a tropical desert; they were without the slightest shelter of any kind, the maggot flies swarmed over them, and the stench was frightful.
Presently the worm would be completely paralyzed, and would be carried to the burrow of the wasp, where an egg would be laid upon it, from which a tinymaggot would presently hatch.
Maggot frequents those houses of good-cheer, Talks most, eats most, of all the feeders there.
The Carrot maggot and the wire-worm are destructive enemies of this crop.
Where the eggs are lodged the leaves will soon appear blistered, and the maggot within must be crushed by pinching the blister between the thumb and finger.
Stones have been known to move and trees to speak; Augures and understood relations have By maggotpies and choughs and rooks brought forth The secret'st man of blood.
Its larva is a maggot which lives in decaying substances or excrement, about sink drains, etc.
After momentary violence, as in throwing, no support need be supplied for several seconds; and, like the maggot inside a hollow bean, a live thing turning itself into a projectile may even carry something else up too.
Do you think I'd let her stay in till the maggotbit you?
