. A manual of injurious insects [microform] : 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. Insect pests; Agricultural pests; Entomology; Insectes nuisibles, Lutte contre les; Ennemis des cultures, Lutte contre les; Entomologie. MARCH MOTH. 385 March Moth. Anisopteryx asculana, March Moth; winged male, wingless female, and band of eggs. The " March Moth " is a common kind, and, as described by its name, is to be found early in the year. In 1889 specimens of the wingle
. A manual of injurious insects [microform] : 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. Insect pests; Agricultural pests; Entomology; Insectes nuisibles, Lutte contre les; Ennemis des cultures, Lutte contre les; Entomologie. MARCH MOTH. 385 March Moth. Anisopteryx asculana, March Moth; winged male, wingless female, and band of eggs. The " March Moth " is a common kind, and, as described by its name, is to be found early in the year. In 1889 specimens of the wingless females, together with bands of their down-embedded eggs, which they were then laying on Plum twigs were sent me on the 29th of March. The moths were rbout three-eighths of an inch long, brown or fawn- colour above, shading to grey below, with darker head and eyes, and dark pencil of hair at the end of the tail, and might be generally described as thickly pear-shaped (the pencifof hairs at the end of the tail answering to a broad, short fruit- stalk—see figure). The hairs were long, the six legs very long, and the moths, though sometimes quite quiet, were able at pleasure to walk very rapidly; one that I timed as to speed walked the length of six inches in twenty-five seconds. The wings were to all appearance totally absent, and the downy coating of the moths very smooth and silky. The twigs were quite small (none of them as much as a quarter of an inch across), and the bands of eggs which were then laid (or being laid) varied from about a quarter to half an inch in breadth at the widest part, but did not always quite encircle the stem. They were deposited with beautiful regularity, and showed to the naked eye as if laid in almost precisely parallel rows along the twig, and were embedded in down supplied by the parent moth from the pencil at the end of her tail. In the largest band I counted twenty-nine rows, and as each of these rows (as nearly as I could count or estimat
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