. Injurious insects of the orchard, vineyard, field, garden, conservatory, household, storehouse, domestic animals, etc., with remedies for their extermination . bearia. Order, Lepidoptera ; Family, ^. 1111111 iT 11 hill [The measurements of insects in this work are given in inches and lines. The above cut rep-resents one inch divided into lines and fractions thereof.] [Feeding upon the leaves of currant and gooseberry bushes ;a whitish ten-legged span-worm, marked with yellow stripesand numerous black spots.] Fig. 210. — Currant Fig- 210. Span-worms and Pupa;a and b, the Vorms indiff
. Injurious insects of the orchard, vineyard, field, garden, conservatory, household, storehouse, domestic animals, etc., with remedies for their extermination . bearia. Order, Lepidoptera ; Family, ^. 1111111 iT 11 hill [The measurements of insects in this work are given in inches and lines. The above cut rep-resents one inch divided into lines and fractions thereof.] [Feeding upon the leaves of currant and gooseberry bushes ;a whitish ten-legged span-worm, marked with yellow stripesand numerous black spots.] Fig. 210. — Currant Fig- 210. Span-worms and Pupa;a and b, the Vorms indifferent positions—col-ors, yellow and black ; c,the pupa—color, brown. This span-worm (, a and b), when fullygrown, measures a littleover an inch in length,is of a whitish color, spot-ted with black, a n dmarked with a yellowstripe on the l:)ack and asimilar one on each sideof the body; the underside of the l.)ody is alsowhite, and has a yelloAVline in the middle. Whenal)out to pupate, it deserts the bushes and creeps beneath thefallen leaves, etc., or enters the earth and forms a small cellin Avhich to undergo its transformations. (Fig. 210c.). INSECTS INFESTING THE CURRANT. 223 Fig. 211. Fig. 211 .—Currant Span-worm Moth (female)—colors, yellow and leaden. The wings of the perfect moth () expands about an inch, are of apale yellowish color, marked with sev-eral dusky spots. This moth appears in June or July,and deposits her eggs u})on the stalks of the currant andgooseberry bushes ; these eggs do not hatch until the followingSpring, there being but one brood of these insects producedin one year. Remedies.—AVhen the larvre appear on the foliage, use or No. 5, or No. 7. See, also, No. 80.
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