. The American fruit culturist. Fig. 271. Fig. 272. Fig. 271.—Currant Span Worm. Fig. 272.—The Snowy Tree-cricket, a, of raspberry with eg-gs ; c, d, egg-, enlarged with details. shown is Fig. 272. These eggs are laid in late summer or falland do not hatch until the early part of the next for the injury caused by the female in laying her eggs,this tree-cricket is not an injurious insect, but is said to feedupon plant-lice and other insects. Canes containing these ragged slits full of eggs should becut off and burned, especially in the fall and winter. The Raspberry Saw-fl
. The American fruit culturist. Fig. 271. Fig. 272. Fig. 271.—Currant Span Worm. Fig. 272.—The Snowy Tree-cricket, a, of raspberry with eg-gs ; c, d, egg-, enlarged with details. shown is Fig. 272. These eggs are laid in late summer or falland do not hatch until the early part of the next for the injury caused by the female in laying her eggs,this tree-cricket is not an injurious insect, but is said to feedupon plant-lice and other insects. Canes containing these ragged slits full of eggs should becut off and burned, especially in the fall and winter. The Raspberry Saw-fly {Monophadnoides rubi) attacks thefoliage of raspberries, blackberries, and dewberries, and oftenoccurs in sufficient numbers nearly to ruin the crop. The DESTRUCTIVE INSECTS. 205 black-bodied, four-winged saw-fly emerges from its cocoon inthe soil in May, and the female, with her saw-like ovipositor,inserts her eggs into the tissue of the under side of the leafnear the veins. The eggs hatch in from seven to ten
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