. A manual of injurious insects with methods of prevention and remedy for their attacks to food crops, forest trees, and fruit. To which is appended a short introduction to entomology . e pecuhar looped shape it assumes in walking (see fig.,p. 310); the head is black; body cream-coloured, with areddish orange stripe along the sides, and large irregular blackspots along the back; the whole of the second ring, and theunder side of the third and fourth, and of the four nearest thetail, are also reddish orange. The very gay colouring distin-guishes it plainly from the greenish or green and black-s
. A manual of injurious insects with methods of prevention and remedy for their attacks to food crops, forest trees, and fruit. To which is appended a short introduction to entomology . e pecuhar looped shape it assumes in walking (see fig.,p. 310); the head is black; body cream-coloured, with areddish orange stripe along the sides, and large irregular blackspots along the back; the whole of the second ring, and theunder side of the third and fourth, and of the four nearest thetail, are also reddish orange. The very gay colouring distin-guishes it plainly from the greenish or green and black-spottedcaterpillar of the Gooseberry Sawfly, which is still morecommon and destructive, and as the Magpie caterpillar hasonly two pairs of sucker-feet (in addition to the three pairs ofclaw feet near the head), being therefore obhged to raise itselfinto an upright loop when walking is another distinction. When full fed it spins a light transparent cocoon _ attachedto twigs, or palings, or in crevices of walls; and in this itchanges to a chrysahs, yellow at first, but afterwards shiningblack, with orange-coloured rings, from which the moth comesout about midsummer or rather Common form of Magpie Moth. The moth is very varial^lu in its colouring, but whenregular in its marking is easily known. Commonly it has ablack head, yellow body between the wings, with a largo blackspot in the middle ; the abdomen also yellow, with five rowsof black spots. The wings are white, spotted with Ijlack, andthe fore wings have a yellow blotch at the base and a yellowband across them. There are, however, almost endlessvarieties of markings, from black of dillcrent shades, to white; sn GOOSEBERRY. some have the upper hah of the wing white and the lowerblack, or the reverse; some have the gromid colour of thewing (instead of merely a hand) yellow; and in some casesthe hinder wings are striped with black. Prevention and Eemedies.—The best method of preventingattack from these caterpillars in t
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