Insects injurious to fruits . pillar is produced is usuallyquite common, but the larva, although often found feeding oncurrant leaves, feeds upon the gooseberry, strawberry, and otherplants besides, and hence is seldom sufficiently abundant on currant-bushes to attract muchattention. The accompanyingfigure, 361, represents the larvaa little more than two-thirdsgrown, feeding on a gooseberryleaf. At this period it doesnot differ materially from thefull-grown larva except in mature, it is about an inch and a half long or more,tapering towards the front. It is of a yellowish-green color
Insects injurious to fruits . pillar is produced is usuallyquite common, but the larva, although often found feeding oncurrant leaves, feeds upon the gooseberry, strawberry, and otherplants besides, and hence is seldom sufficiently abundant on currant-bushes to attract muchattention. The accompanyingfigure, 361, represents the larvaa little more than two-thirdsgrown, feeding on a gooseberryleaf. At this period it doesnot differ materially from thefull-grown larva except in mature, it is about an inch and a half long or more,tapering towards the front. It is of a yellowish-green color,with an indistinct whitish line down the back, and a ratherbroad whitish streak on each side below the spiracles, borderedabove with faint purple, which increases in depth of color onthe hinder segments and becomes a purple stripe on the lastone. The spiracles are white, edged with purple; each seg-ment of the body has its anterior portion swollen and yellow-ish, and on most of the segments tlu;re are a few minute
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