Elementary entomology (1912) Elementary entomology . elementaryento00sand Year: 1912 THE BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS 189 color, with golden bands and fringes, and expands four fifths of an inch. The meal snout-moth {Pyralis farinalis) also sometimes feeds on clover hay, though it is more commonly a pest of meal and flour, in which it spins silken tubes wherever it feeds. A thorough Fig. 295. The Indian-meal moth (F/odia interpunctella). (Enlarged) (7, moth; /', pupa; r,/, caterpillar; d, head; e, first abdominal segment of same. (After Chittenden, United States Department of Agriculture) cleanin
Elementary entomology (1912) Elementary entomology . elementaryento00sand Year: 1912 THE BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS 189 color, with golden bands and fringes, and expands four fifths of an inch. The meal snout-moth {Pyralis farinalis) also sometimes feeds on clover hay, though it is more commonly a pest of meal and flour, in which it spins silken tubes wherever it feeds. A thorough Fig. 295. The Indian-meal moth (F/odia interpunctella). (Enlarged) (7, moth; /', pupa; r,/, caterpillar; d, head; e, first abdominal segment of same. (After Chittenden, United States Department of Agriculture) cleaning out of barns and grain rooms will usually prevent trouble from both of these pests. The subfamily PJiycitinac includes another pair of pests of grain products, — the Indian-meal moth {Plodia interpu7ictelld), whose white larvcC spin silken tubes in meal, dried fruits, and other stores which they infest, and the Mediter- ranean flour-moth, which has similar habits and has be- come a very serious pest of flour mills, clogging up the machinery with its strong silken webs and necessitating frequent fumigation. The'only common representative of another family is the bee-moth, whose larvae feed upon the wax of honeycombs, in which they make
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