Economic entomology for the farmer Economic entomology for the farmer and the fruit grower, and for use as a text-book in agricultural schools and colleges; economicentomol00smit Year: 1906 The saddle-back caterpillar and its moth, Empyctia slimiilca. densely clothed with scales and hair, the head much reduced, and the tongue wanting. This, by the bye, is quite a general character in the types now under consideration, and which are termed 'spinners,' because most of the caterpillars make a more or less complete cocoon of silk. The Liiiiacodids are rarely common, and only one species, Empretia
Economic entomology for the farmer Economic entomology for the farmer and the fruit grower, and for use as a text-book in agricultural schools and colleges; economicentomol00smit Year: 1906 The saddle-back caterpillar and its moth, Empyctia slimiilca. densely clothed with scales and hair, the head much reduced, and the tongue wanting. This, by the bye, is quite a general character in the types now under consideration, and which are termed 'spinners,' because most of the caterpillars make a more or less complete cocoon of silk. The Liiiiacodids are rarely common, and only one species, Empretia stimidca^ has become troublesome in the caterpillar state. This is a very curious, slug- like larva, somewhat flattened and oblong in shape, most of the body green in color, but with a quadrate, red-brown patch resembling a saddle on the middle of the back, and a brown patch at each end of the body, from the outer edge of each of which arises a long, fleshy process, set with stiff' spines in all directions. Small warts or processes are found along the sides of the body, set with stiff' hairs in the same way. It has no ap-
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