. The insect and other allied pests of orchard, bush and hothouse fruits and their prevention and treatment . Insect pests; Fruit. //(.serfs' In' lo [he f'hciri/. 187 LlFK-]IlSTOJ;V AMI H UIITS. The butterfly is about L'l to 3 iiirhes across (lie ex]'d wiii^^s. The colour of the fore wings is rich .irange-fimwD, dusky at tVie lia'sc, marked as shown in tlie pliotograph ( Kig. 144) \\-illi lila'ck ; the liind wings are of ;i similar colnur, duslc}- at tlie base, with n single black spot at the eeutre of the edge. Theie is a, dusky border to the fore wings and the same to th
. The insect and other allied pests of orchard, bush and hothouse fruits and their prevention and treatment . Insect pests; Fruit. //(.serfs' In' lo [he f'hciri/. 187 LlFK-]IlSTOJ;V AMI H UIITS. The butterfly is about L'l to 3 iiirhes across (lie ex]'d wiii^^s. The colour of the fore wings is rich .irange-fimwD, dusky at tVie lia'sc, marked as shown in tlie pliotograph ( Kig. 144) \\-illi lila'ck ; the liind wings are of ;i similar colnur, duslc}- at tlie base, with n single black spot at the eeutre of the edge. Theie is a, dusky border to the fore wings and the same to the hind, with dark blue <aesc(mts, the largest in the nnildle. Tbe butterfly appciirs in July, and many hibernate over the winter in sheltered spots. The eggs are laid in i\ray on the t\^'igs of the food plants, often completely surrounding the twigs in lingdike manner. The caterpillars live in colonies until their moult, when they .spread ovw the trees. The young ones cover thenrselves \\itli a wr],. of fine silk, beneath which they live, liuds and young lea\es ;ire eaten by them in their early stages, and the twigs in their neighbour- hood are soon .stripped of all foliage. The mature caterpillar is Idack' or Ijrownish-black, with a yellow line along the sides, and the yellowish-bro\\-n spines haxe black points, numerous ochreons-brown freckles on the back, fornnng a longitudinal band bounded by the sub-dorsal spines ; in the middle of the back is a dorsal line of black; on the sides are numerous grey specks gi\-ing a greyish hue ; arouml the spiracles there is ochreous- Ijrown. A\4ien full grc>wn the \av\a is about 'J inches long. By mid June they have all dispersed and suspend themselves by the tail and change into the chrysalis state, hanging head downwards. Tho chrvsalis has two rows of running down the back. yellow at the extremit}', ringed \\'ith black; at the thoriicic end of. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images th
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