. Annual report of the Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests of the State of New York . alling. Description. The parent insect is a beautiful stout beetle about one inch is black, brilliantly marked with yellow, as represented at figure 4 of plate 3. Theborer or larva is a whitish, flattened, footless grub with brownish mouth parts. Smallones (Plate 3, figure 2), about one half inch long, are found in September just under FISHERIES, GAME AND FORESTS. 387 the bark and come from eggs laid the same season. The nearly full grown borer(Plate 3, figure 3) is about two inches long, whi
. Annual report of the Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests of the State of New York . alling. Description. The parent insect is a beautiful stout beetle about one inch is black, brilliantly marked with yellow, as represented at figure 4 of plate 3. Theborer or larva is a whitish, flattened, footless grub with brownish mouth parts. Smallones (Plate 3, figure 2), about one half inch long, are found in September just under FISHERIES, GAME AND FORESTS. 387 the bark and come from eggs laid the same season. The nearly full grown borer(Plate 3, figure 3) is about two inches long, white, with some rosy tints and in otherrespects closely resembles the smaller ones. Life History and Habits. The parent insects or beetles occur from the latter partof June till into August. Most of the eggs are probably laid during the latter twomonths. The place of oviposition (Plate 3, figures 1, id) may be recognized by theirregular discoloration of the bark, caused in part by the sap flowing from the woundand partly from the expelled frass or excrement, the latter often hanging in small.
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