. Insects, injurious and beneficial, their natural history and classification, for the use of fruit growers, vine growers, farmers, gardeners and schools . Some are naked, while others are clothed with hairs or live exposed upon the leaves : others live beneath a web,or in a nest of leaves: a few oonstruct cases in which to 70 XATTTRAL HISTORY OF INSECTS. dwell, while a still smaller number live within the trunks oftrees. The greater number spin cocoons in which to undergotheir transformations. The Cecropia Moth and Caterpillar(Figs. 204 and 50); the Silk Worm and Moth (Figs. 205 a


. Insects, injurious and beneficial, their natural history and classification, for the use of fruit growers, vine growers, farmers, gardeners and schools . Some are naked, while others are clothed with hairs or live exposed upon the leaves : others live beneath a web,or in a nest of leaves: a few oonstruct cases in which to 70 XATTTRAL HISTORY OF INSECTS. dwell, while a still smaller number live within the trunks oftrees. The greater number spin cocoons in which to undergotheir transformations. The Cecropia Moth and Caterpillar(Figs. 204 and 50); the Silk Worm and Moth (Figs. 205 and206); the Isabella Moth (Fig. 207), and the White Miller(Fig. 208), are examples of this Family. Fig. * Z Owlet Moths (Noctuidse).—These moths usually have thethorax or abdomen tufted; the head is not sunken into thethorax, the palpi are stout and well developed, the antennaeare usually simple, and the wings are quite large. Fig. 211.


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