. The moth book [microform] : a popular guide to a knowledge of the moths of North America. Moths; Papillons nocturnes; Papillons nocturnes; Moths. upon freihly grown mi lapid food, it is transrormcd into a pupa, from which the moth presently emerges. The moth closely resembles the next species, but the student, by the study of Its habits and of the case, which is always straight, and not crooked, as is that of the species, may jt once discriminate it. (3) MineoU IndlgenelU Zeller. (The Leaf-crumpler.) Syn. w^/wAi WuNh; u/afyUa UuUt. This moth is common in the Valley of the M
. The moth book [microform] : a popular guide to a knowledge of the moths of North America. Moths; Papillons nocturnes; Papillons nocturnes; Moths. upon freihly grown mi lapid food, it is transrormcd into a pupa, from which the moth presently emerges. The moth closely resembles the next species, but the student, by the study of Its habits and of the case, which is always straight, and not crooked, as is that of the species, may jt once discriminate it. (3) MineoU IndlgenelU Zeller. (The Leaf-crumpler.) Syn. w^/wAi WuNh; u/afyUa UuUt. This moth is common in the Valley of the Mississippi and in Ontario, but does not appear to be very common in the Eastern States, and is un- known in the extreme south- ern portions of our region. It is very common in western Pennsylvania. Professor C. V. Riley de- scribes its habits as follows: "It is one of those insects which is hardly noticed while it Is carrying on its most de- structive work; for it is most voracious during the leafy months of May and June, and is then more or less hid- den by the foliage of the tree, which it so effectually helps to denude. But the nakedness of winter, though it does not reveal the surreptitious worm, lays bare and renders conspicuous its little house, and these houscs- these larval cases-whether closely attached in clusters to the twigs as in Figure 3j8, », or hidden in a few seared and silk-sewn leaves as at Figure 339, are unerring tokens of past injury to the tree, and symbols of increased injury in the future, unless re- moved. The bunches of leaves anchored to the tree by strong silken cables and breasting defiantly every winter's wind are, indeed, significant insignia upon which is written in characters, if not in words—'result of careless culture and unpardonable neglect.' There is but one brood a year, and the larva, about one-third. Fig. «8,—1/, itijigtntlia. a, case: i, c*ie wrapped in dcbri* of leavef; r, head uf larva;,/, moth, ent^irged. (After Riley.).
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