Insects injurious to fruits . roduced is usuallyquite common, but the larva, although often found feeding oncurrant leaves, feeds upon the gooseberry, strawberry, and otherplants besides, and hence is seldom sufficiently abundant on currant-bushes to attract much^^^- ^^^- attention. The accompanying figure, 361, represents the larvaa little more than two-thirdsgrown, feeding on a gooseberryleaf. At this period it doesnot differ materially from thefull-grown larva except in size,When mature, it is about an inch and a half long or more,tapering towards the front. It is of a yellowish-green color
Insects injurious to fruits . roduced is usuallyquite common, but the larva, although often found feeding oncurrant leaves, feeds upon the gooseberry, strawberry, and otherplants besides, and hence is seldom sufficiently abundant on currant-bushes to attract much^^^- ^^^- attention. The accompanying figure, 361, represents the larvaa little more than two-thirdsgrown, feeding on a gooseberryleaf. At this period it doesnot differ materially from thefull-grown larva except in size,When mature, it is about an inch and a half long or more,tapering towards the front. It is of a yellowish-green color,with an indistinct whitish line down the back, and a ratherbroad whitish streak on each side below the spiracles, borderedabove with faint purple, which increases in depth of color onthe hinder segments and becomes a pnrple stripe on the lastone. The spiracles are white, edged with purple; each seg-ment of the body has its anterior j)ortion swollen and yellow-ish, and on most of the segments there are a few minute ATTACKING THE LEAVES. 349 Fig. 3(52. When the larva has attained its full size, it draws together;he edges of a leaf half-way or more, and, forming a slightuet-work of silken threads, changes to a chrysalis of a darkolive-green color, with a pale-greenish abdomen, a row ofblack dots down the back, and another on each side, fromwhich in about ten days or a fortnight the perfect insectappears. The moth (Fig. 362) is a native of America; it Hies byday, and may often be seen on the wing about openings inthe borders of the forest. Itswings are yellow, varying inshade from deep to pale, withdusky spots and dots sometimesfew in number, while in otherspecimens they are very numer-ous, the larger ones being so ar-ranged as to form an imperfectband across the wings. The under side is usually a little deeper in color than the upj)er,and, when the wings are expanded, they measure nearly aninch and a half across. In its native haunts the larva probably feeds on the wi
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