. Injurious insects of the orchard, vineyard, field, garden, conservatory, household, storehouse, domestic animals, etc., with remedies for their extermination . n caterpillar—color, greenish-white, with a tinge of pink or yellow. This borer (Fig 227) keeps its burrow open, and not packedfull of woody fibres as many other borers are known to do. 240 INSECTS INFESTING THE LOCUST TREE. When about to pupate it spins a cocoon in the lower part ofits burrow, and before the perfect moth emerges the pupaworks itself up to and partially out of the opening of its bur-row, and while in this position the
. Injurious insects of the orchard, vineyard, field, garden, conservatory, household, storehouse, domestic animals, etc., with remedies for their extermination . n caterpillar—color, greenish-white, with a tinge of pink or yellow. This borer (Fig 227) keeps its burrow open, and not packedfull of woody fibres as many other borers are known to do. 240 INSECTS INFESTING THE LOCUST TREE. When about to pupate it spins a cocoon in the lower part ofits burrow, and before the perfect moth emerges the pupaworks itself up to and partially out of the opening of its bur-row, and while in this position the moth (Fig. 228) makes itsescape. Fig. 228.—Lo- Fig. 228. cust CarpenterMoth (female)—colors, gray andblack. The sexes differwidely from eachother, both insize and female isthe largest, ex-panding from two inches to two inches and six lines; the wings are gray,dotted with Ijlack and marked with a network of black lines. The male moth expands only about an inch and six lines;the wings are darker than those of the female, and there is alarge yellow spot on each hind wing. This species is verydestructive to locust trees. Remedy.—Use No. CHAPTER Legless Locust Borer. (Cal.)(Clytus rubinix.—Forster.)Order, Coleopteka ; Family, Cekambycid^e. [Boring into the trunks and branches of the locust tree; anearly footless whitish grub, about one inch long and as thickas a goose-quill.] When young this borer lives in the sap-wood, but as itgrows longer it burrows into the solid wood, perforating it inevery direction. At first it casts its chips out of the opening INSECTS INFESTING THE LOCUST TREE. 241 of its burrow, which finally becomes packed full of the coarseand fibrous parts of the wood. It assumes the pupa form inits burrow, and the beetle issues late in July or early in 229.—Legless Locust Borer (the beetle)—colors, yellow and black. This beetle (Fig. 229) is of a lihick color and ismarked with several transverse and oblique yellowline
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