. The insect and other allied pests of orchard, bush and hothouse fruits and their prevention and treatment . Insect pests; Fruit. 22 Insect Pests (1) Ormrroil, E. A. ' Hcandbook of InsectH Injurious to Orchard and Busli Fruits,' p. 24 (189r,|. (2) Onnrroih K. A. Eighteentli Eeport of Obsevv;itioiis of Injurious Insects, p. 4 (1895). THE BROWN TAIL MOTH. {Enpi'<i<:tix eJirijHnri'lirea. Linn.) This motli is a common British insect, and its presence in America is only too well known on account of the vast amount of harm it is doing there. It appears to ha\-e been accidentally
. The insect and other allied pests of orchard, bush and hothouse fruits and their prevention and treatment . Insect pests; Fruit. 22 Insect Pests (1) Ormrroil, E. A. ' Hcandbook of InsectH Injurious to Orchard and Busli Fruits,' p. 24 (189r,|. (2) Onnrroih K. A. Eighteentli Eeport of Obsevv;itioiis of Injurious Insects, p. 4 (1895). THE BROWN TAIL MOTH. {Enpi'<i<:tix eJirijHnri'lirea. Linn.) This motli is a common British insect, and its presence in America is only too well known on account of the vast amount of harm it is doing there. It appears to ha\-e been accidentally introduced into Xew England some seventeen years ago on rose hushes from France. Since then it has rapidly spread, and has not only caused damage over a large tract of country, but appears to be still on the increase. Besides being found in Britain, this insect is common on the Continent, and extends eastwards as far as the Himalayas and as far south as Algeria. According to Stainton (1), tlie Brown Tail Moth is local. Where it does occur, however, it may become very abundant. It belongs to the family of moths known as Li pa r id K, and is closely related to the Gold Tail, but has many divergent traits in its life-history. One of its curious features is that it may occur one year in enormous numbers and then completely disappear. In Kollar (2) is recorded the following :—" In the summer of 17cS2 this insect created great alarm over the country from its multifarious colonies which wei-e so immensely numerous, we arc informed by i\Ir. Curtis, that in many of the parishes near London subscriptions were opened and the poor people employed to cut off the webs at one shilling per bushel, and which were burnt under the inspection of the church- wardens, overseers or beadles of the ;. TKNT (IK lillnw N TAIL MiiTH Ynl XU \1IV_F, (iI'Tsn> Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability
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