. Insects injurious to fruits. Illustrated with four hundred and forty wood-cuts. Insect pests. oblong-oval form, with rather long legs, and is distended with eggs; indeed, she is more like an animated bag of eggs than anything else. (See Fig. 52, where she is represented attached to the empty cocoon from which she has escaped.) After her escape, she patiently waits the attendance of the male, and then begins to place her eggs on the outside of her own cocoon, fastening them there in the manner already described. During this process her body contracts very much, and soon after her work is fini
. Insects injurious to fruits. Illustrated with four hundred and forty wood-cuts. Insect pests. oblong-oval form, with rather long legs, and is distended with eggs; indeed, she is more like an animated bag of eggs than anything else. (See Fig. 52, where she is represented attached to the empty cocoon from which she has escaped.) After her escape, she patiently waits the attendance of the male, and then begins to place her eggs on the outside of her own cocoon, fastening them there in the manner already described. During this process her body contracts very much, and soon after her work is finished she drops down to the ground and dies. The male moth (Fig. 53) is of an ashen-gray color, the fore wings being crossed by wavy bands of a darker shade ; there is a small black spot on the outer edge near the tip, an oblique blackish stripe beyond it, and a minute white crescent near the outer hind angle. The body is gray, with a small black tuft near the base of the abdomen. The wings, when expanded, measure about an inch and a quarter 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 Saunders, William, 1836-1914. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & Co
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