. Insects injurious to fruits. Illustrated with four hundred and forty wood-cuts. Insect pests. 138 INSECTS INJURIOUS TO THE APPLE. several insects are found in the same apple, and sometimes the fruit is almost alive with them, when, being rapidly riddled with their borings, it speedily decays. No. 63.—The Apple Thrips. Phlceothrips mail Fitch. This is a very small insect, about one-eighteenth of an inch long. It is slender, of a blackish-purple color, with narrow, silvery-white wings. Occasionally apples are found early in August, small and withered, with a cavity near their tip, about the si
. Insects injurious to fruits. Illustrated with four hundred and forty wood-cuts. Insect pests. 138 INSECTS INJURIOUS TO THE APPLE. several insects are found in the same apple, and sometimes the fruit is almost alive with them, when, being rapidly riddled with their borings, it speedily decays. No. 63.—The Apple Thrips. Phlceothrips mail Fitch. This is a very small insect, about one-eighteenth of an inch long. It is slender, of a blackish-purple color, with narrow, silvery-white wings. Occasionally apples are found early in August, small and withered, with a cavity near their tip, about the size of a pea, and the surface of a blackened color, appearing as if the cavity had been gnawed out. Within this may usually be found one of these apple thrips, which had probably taken up its residence on the fruit while it was very small, and by frequent puncturing day after day the apple has been stunted in its growth, and finally withers. This insect has never yet proved very injurious; should it ever become so, it would be a difficult one to exterminate. Syringing thoroughly with tobacco-water or a solution of whale-oil soap would probably prove efficacious. No. 64.—The Ash-gray Pinion. Lithophane antennata (Walker.) This insect is a moth, the larva of which has occasionally Fig. been found boring into young apples and peaches during the month of June. Fig. 145 illustrates its mode of Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Saunders, William, 1836-1914. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & Co
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