Insects injurious to fruits . scattered over thebo<ly. The side fringes which border the body close to theunder surface are composed of spreading tufts of light-graymingled with black hairs, of unequal length, proceeding fromwarts nearly one-tenth of an inch long. The under side is ofa pale-red or orange color, with black spots. This caterpillar,when at rest, closely resembles the color of the twig to whichit is attached, and hence is difficult to detect. It reachesmaturity during the month of July, and is found on thecherry and elm, as well as on the apple. The cocoon, which is usually att
Insects injurious to fruits . scattered over thebo<ly. The side fringes which border the body close to theunder surface are composed of spreading tufts of light-graymingled with black hairs, of unequal length, proceeding fromwarts nearly one-tenth of an inch long. The under side is ofa pale-red or orange color, with black spots. This caterpillar,when at rest, closely resembles the color of the twig to whichit is attached, and hence is difficult to detect. It reachesmaturity during the month of July, and is found on thecherry and elm, as well as on the apple. The cocoon, which is usually attached to one of the branchesof the tree on which the larva has fed, is about an inch anda half long and half an inch wide, oval, convex above, andflattened on the under side; it is of a brownish-gray color,with a few blackish hairs interwoven with the silk. The moth (Fig. 88) is usually found in August and Sep-tember. It has a large, thick, woolly body, of a white color,variegated with bluish gray; its legs are thick and very. 90 INSECTS INJURIOUS TO THE APPLE. hairy. On tlie fore wings are two broad, dark-gray bands, in-tervening between three narrow, wavy, white bands; the veins are white and prominent. Tliehind wings are gray, with a whitehind border, and across the middlethere is a broad, faint, whitishband. On the top of the thoraxis an oblong, blackish-brown spot,widening behind. The males arenot mucli more than half the size of the females; the former,when their wings are expanded, measure about an inch and ahalf across, the latter nearly two and a half inches. Likethat last described, this is a rare insect, and one never likelyto appear in sufficient numbers to be troublesome. No. 35.—The Oblique-banded Leaf-roller. Cacoecia rosaceana (Harris). This moth is a member of a very large family of smallmoths called Tortrices, or, popularly, leaf-rollers, becausetheir larvae have the habit of rolling up the leaves, or por-tions of them, forming hollow cylinders, firmly faste
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