Quince cultureAn illustrated hand-book for the propagation and cultivation of the quince with descriptions of its varieties, insect enemies, diseases, and their remedies . Fig. 106—THE POLYPHEMUS MOTH, FEMALE. they have two broods a year. Packard is certainly mis-taken when he speaks of our native species bearing buta single crop of worms, for this one is chrysalis that winters in the cocoon is proportion-ately short and thick, of a reddish brown, and distinctly. Fig. 107.—THE POLYPHEMUS MOTH, MALE. marked in cylindrical rings. The larvae of the first broodonly pupate about
Quince cultureAn illustrated hand-book for the propagation and cultivation of the quince with descriptions of its varieties, insect enemies, diseases, and their remedies . Fig. 106—THE POLYPHEMUS MOTH, FEMALE. they have two broods a year. Packard is certainly mis-taken when he speaks of our native species bearing buta single crop of worms, for this one is chrysalis that winters in the cocoon is proportion-ately short and thick, of a reddish brown, and distinctly. Fig. 107.—THE POLYPHEMUS MOTH, MALE. marked in cylindrical rings. The larvae of the first broodonly pupate about twenty days, spinning thoir cocoonsin June and July, according to the time they were INSECT ENEMIES. 121 hatched; for the cocoons that winter, vary considerablyin the time of bringing out their moths. They generallycome out late in May and on into June. Then they laytheir eggs, usually singly, on the under side of leaves,each moth laying severalhundred, which hatch intocaterpillars in ten or twelvedays. The eggs are one-tenth of an inch across,much flattened, and of acolor approacliing to first the abdomen of thefemale is so heavy with the abundance of the eggs thatshe flies only short distances. The caterpillar is a shade of green so near like theleaves around it, one often has some difficulty in discov-ering it, even after he has found where to look by its
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