. The insect book [microform] : a popular account of the bees, wasps, ants, grasshoppers, flies and other North American insects exclusive of the butterflies, moths and beetles, with full life histories, tables and bibliographies. Insectes; Insects. Jt The Saw-FIiei for its first meal after each molt. When full grown it molts a fifth time, leaving its cast skin as a slender line of slime attached to the leaf. It now appears as a light orange-vellow worm, perfectly clean and dry, with no slime. It thiii crawls down the plant to the ground, penetrating for half an inch or more and forming a Httl
. The insect book [microform] : a popular account of the bees, wasps, ants, grasshoppers, flies and other North American insects exclusive of the butterflies, moths and beetles, with full life histories, tables and bibliographies. Insectes; Insects. Jt The Saw-FIiei for its first meal after each molt. When full grown it molts a fifth time, leaving its cast skin as a slender line of slime attached to the leaf. It now appears as a light orange-vellow worm, perfectly clean and dry, with no slime. It thiii crawls down the plant to the ground, penetrating for half an inch or more and forming a Httle cell the sides of which it moistens with .saliva, thus forming a kind of cocoon of firm tex- ture, more or less impervous to water. Near Washington the first gen- eration of larvx leaves the trees by the end of June, and a second genera- /^^comri:'rdianaf.','pu^a-"' ^'°" 1'^^'"^ to appear soon after; but all enlarged. (A/ur . in New York State many of the in- dividuals of the first generation pass the winter in their cocoons. The insect hibernates below the surface of the ground, and the flies appear the following April or May. No insect is easier to destroy than the pear slug. All of the insecticide mixtures kill it readily, and even throwing dust over the leaves will destroy 78 '^tr^:.^^^BBiC?%ei4Ce9HiSIPn]^«^f^^^. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Howard, L. O. (Leland Ossian), 1857-1950. Toronto : W. Briggs
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