. My garden, its plan and culture together with a general description of its geology, botany, and natural history. Gardening. Fig. 1065.—Caterpillar of Goat Moth. creature, with a pair of jaws of such power that it can eat and penetrate into the hardest trees. It lives upon the woody fibre, and is particularly partial to the willow. I have known it to destroy cherry and apple trees. Its presence may be known by an unpleasant odour, and by a peculiar kind of sawdust-looking matter oozing from the trunks of the trees. A short time ago I saw one of my favourite apple-trees so attacked. I immediat
. My garden, its plan and culture together with a general description of its geology, botany, and natural history. Gardening. Fig. 1065.—Caterpillar of Goat Moth. creature, with a pair of jaws of such power that it can eat and penetrate into the hardest trees. It lives upon the woody fibre, and is particularly partial to the willow. I have known it to destroy cherry and apple trees. Its presence may be known by an unpleasant odour, and by a peculiar kind of sawdust-looking matter oozing from the trunks of the trees. A short time ago I saw one of my favourite apple-trees so attacked. I immediately cut into this caterpillar's gallery, which I found penetrated to the heart of the tree. The moth itself is three inches across the wings, and is remarkable for the quantity of fat it contains, which is apt to grease the paper of the cabinet in which it is placed. Fig. 1066 shows part of the trunk of an apple-tree which was literally riddled by these creatures. Fig. 1066.—Apple-stem eaten by Goat 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 Smee, Alfred, 1818-1877. London, Bell and Daldy
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