. The insect and other allied pests of orchard, bush and hothouse fruits and their prevention and treatment . Insect pests; Fruit. 62 Insect [K Edeadeii FIG. 62.—FEMALE MARCH MOTH. (Ani^opterifX ceficidaria. Sclnff.) (Grt-atly eDliir^ed to .show side view of tail tuft.) (Janiljridgeshire and in Yorkshire. The popular name deri\'ed from the date of its appearance. Specimens may, howevei', Lie taken as early as mid Feliruary and as late as mid April, a few strag- glers going on until the end of the month. Life-History and Habits. The male moth flies at dusk and may be found in garden
. The insect and other allied pests of orchard, bush and hothouse fruits and their prevention and treatment . Insect pests; Fruit. 62 Insect [K Edeadeii FIG. 62.—FEMALE MARCH MOTH. (Ani^opterifX ceficidaria. Sclnff.) (Grt-atly eDliir^ed to .show side view of tail tuft.) (Janiljridgeshire and in Yorkshire. The popular name deri\'ed from the date of its appearance. Specimens may, howevei', Lie taken as early as mid Feliruary and as late as mid April, a few strag- glers going on until the end of the month. Life-History and Habits. The male moth flies at dusk and may be found in gardens, orchards, woiids, and along hedgerows. The colour of the fore wings is greyish-lirown, with dark and pale wavy lines running across, as seen in the photograph (Fig. 51), and there is a small dark hrown spot near the upper border of each wing ; the wing expanse varies from 1^ to liV inch; the hind wings are pale grey, with a darker line more or less continued from the outei' line on each fore wing. The female is greyish to greyish- brown and cpiite wingless, and has a very pronounced fan-like tail of hairs. She crawls up the tree trunks, just as the two preceding do. The eggs are laid in a partial Ijand, ^^ar}^- ing in size from ^ to nearly .V inch across, they are deposited in more or less parallel rows and are embedded in liairs from the fan-like extension of the tail; the eggs are bright and shiny, and A'ary in numlier in each ring. Ormerod (1) records as nuiuy as five hundred in a ring, this appears to lie exceptional, some lifty to two luindred being a, wide limit. The hatch in April. The. 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 Theobald, Frederick Vincent, 1868-1930. Wye, Eng. : Frederick V. Theobald
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