. The American entomologist. Entomology. 2G moth)—his lilt 11 ii 1 n i ui} 1 uh m lose, thorn, chiir\, plum md \\\)V md i-pn_iill} on the last. Your hndmg it on pen, •\\hich is •\ery closel) aUied. Coloi^Brownish-yellow. to the apple, and yet is inimical to the life of several insects commonly found on apple, is a new fact. The species is not very common in the Valley of the Mis- sissippi; but when it does occur, it occurs in great numbers, because the mother-moth deposits a very large number of eggs upon a single leaf. As these \M\x are gregarious throughout their entire , and do no
. The American entomologist. Entomology. 2G moth)—his lilt 11 ii 1 n i ui} 1 uh m lose, thorn, chiir\, plum md \\\)V md i-pn_iill} on the last. Your hndmg it on pen, •\\hich is •\ery closel) aUied. Coloi^Brownish-yellow. to the apple, and yet is inimical to the life of several insects commonly found on apple, is a new fact. The species is not very common in the Valley of the Mis- sissippi; but when it does occur, it occurs in great numbers, because the mother-moth deposits a very large number of eggs upon a single leaf. As these \M\x are gregarious throughout their entire , and do not scatter over the whole tree, as do many CFiK. 25.] others that occur on our fruit trees—some of which wander oil' from the very earliest stage in their larval life, and others, as for example the common Tent Caterpillar {Clisiocampa americana), only toward the latter part of their existence in the larval state —they can always be easily destroyed. Ft ourselves, we never feel the least fear or scruple at crushing hundreds ol any of these caterpillars in our naked hands; any one, however, that is more nice thar.' [Fig ;g ] we are can put on a i-; '- of stout buckskin glo\. before he commences tlii- squashing process. But although we do not hesi- tate to squash any kind ' caterpillar bare-handi d, we by no means advise any one to try this operaticHi, either upon the Colorado Potato Bug or upon any of Ui. Blister-beetles. For all these last-named insects are "ijiy or less poisonous, and we have known a young girl miO; c her hands very sore by crushing with her naked •ins'^ri a lot of the Ash-gray Blister-beetles, that were infesting some English beans. - mouly found on Honey Locust, though it also (.I'll the common Black Locust, on the Wistaria :iiiil ni False Indigo, (Amorphafi-uticosa.) The du>ky-i'. ? tree-hopper with a long yellow spot each side an'' a horn-like projection from the fore part of its body is the Two-spotted Tree-hovpe', Fa
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