A handbook of the destructive insects of Victoria : with notes on the methods to be adopted to check and extirpate them . >-4 4.,. Del DireziL PiQte HE. Troedel«°Litli. THE CHERRY-BOREE. 113 CHAPTER XVIII. THE CHERRY-BORER. ( Maroga giganfella.) Order: Lepidoptera Heterocera. Family: Gclichidce ? This pest of the cherry and peach grower is a Moth,the larva3 of whicli are terribly destructive to cherry andpeach trees and sometimes to phims. The hirva is a pinkish-white grub (see Plate XIIL, ), hairy, and when full-grown, about two inches in length. The perfect ins
A handbook of the destructive insects of Victoria : with notes on the methods to be adopted to check and extirpate them . >-4 4.,. Del DireziL PiQte HE. Troedel«°Litli. THE CHERRY-BOREE. 113 CHAPTER XVIII. THE CHERRY-BORER. ( Maroga giganfella.) Order: Lepidoptera Heterocera. Family: Gclichidce ? This pest of the cherry and peach grower is a Moth,the larva3 of whicli are terribly destructive to cherry andpeach trees and sometimes to phims. The hirva is a pinkish-white grub (see Plate XIIL, ), hairy, and when full-grown, about two inches in length. The perfect insect (see Plate XIIL, Fig. 5) is Avhite,shining; head in front and antennae black; fore-wings, insome instances, more or less greyish, the whole wingshaving a somewhat silky appearance, with a black spot oneach; hind-wings darker, fringe white; length of the body,10-12 lines; spread of wings, 20 to 30 lines. This insect(it is supposed) also attacks elm trees by boring into thethick branches, and is one of the worst of the wattle-borers, and has left its native food for the less bitter woodof the cherry and peach. Until quite r
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