. A manual of injurious insects [microform] : with methods of prevention and remedy for their attacks to food crops, forest trees, and fruit : to which is appended a short introduction to entomology. Insect pests; Agricultural pests; Entomology; Insectes nuisibles, Lutte contre les; Ennemis des cultures, Lutte contre les; Entomologie. SMALL ERMINE MOTH. 296 means of prevention and remedy as those of the Lackey Moth. Small Ermine Moth. IJyponomeuta padellm, Linn.; II. variahilis, ZoU. s?^n/-). Small Erinino Apple Moth, caterpillar, and cocoons, life aizo, and caterpillar much magnified. The cat
. A manual of injurious insects [microform] : with methods of prevention and remedy for their attacks to food crops, forest trees, and fruit : to which is appended a short introduction to entomology. Insect pests; Agricultural pests; Entomology; Insectes nuisibles, Lutte contre les; Ennemis des cultures, Lutte contre les; Entomologie. SMALL ERMINE MOTH. 296 means of prevention and remedy as those of the Lackey Moth. Small Ermine Moth. IJyponomeuta padellm, Linn.; II. variahilis, ZoU. s?^n/-). Small Erinino Apple Moth, caterpillar, and cocoons, life aizo, and caterpillar much magnified. The caterpillars of the Small Ermine Moth are very des- tructive to the leafage of various kinds of orchard fruit trees* Hawthorns, &c. In 1888 caterpillars of the Small Ermine Moths swarmed to such an extent on the trees in the Fruit Grounds at Toddington, in Gloucestershire, that in the early part of the summer Capt. Corbett (the Superintendent), wrote me they collected the cocoons by bucketsful; and the same kind of caterpillars also did much injury in that year to orchards in Herefordshire, some trees being completely stripped. The moth lays her eggs in roundish patches on the small twigs, and covers these patches with a kind of strong gum, which is yellow at first, but gradually changes to a dark brown, so as not to be easily distinguishable from the brown twigs. The eggs may be found hatched by the beginning of October, but the caterpillars (which are then little yellow creatures with black heads, and only about half a line long) remain sheltered under the patch of gum during the winter, and do not come out till the leaves begin to unfold in spring. Then it is stated (see ' Trans. Ent. Soc. Loud.,' vol. i., p. 22) that they burrow into the young leaves and feed on the soft matter within, until they are strong enough to eat straight- forward at the whole leaf, when they come out from their workings and thus make their appearance suddenly in large numbers where none have been
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