Ontario Sessional Papers, 1898-99, . ments, from each side of which a slenderbristle springs. When full-grown they are about \ inch in length ; they then eat their wayout by a small round hole through the pod and enter the ground a short distance, wherethey spin small oval cocoons in which they pass the winter, and the perfect moths do notappear again until nearlv the middle of the following July. Dr. J. Ritzema Bos, in hisAgricultural Zoology, says of the same or a closely allied European species : The mothsfly about in large numbers around the pea blossoms, always a short time after
Ontario Sessional Papers, 1898-99, . ments, from each side of which a slenderbristle springs. When full-grown they are about \ inch in length ; they then eat their wayout by a small round hole through the pod and enter the ground a short distance, wherethey spin small oval cocoons in which they pass the winter, and the perfect moths do notappear again until nearlv the middle of the following July. Dr. J. Ritzema Bos, in hisAgricultural Zoology, says of the same or a closely allied European species : The mothsfly about in large numbers around the pea blossoms, always a short time after females lay one, two, or at most three, eggs on a very young pod. In fourteen daysthe caterpillar is hatched, bores into the pod, and attacks the pease. The pease attackedare covered, while in the pod, with the coarse-grained excrement of the caterpillar andare often united, two or three together, by a web. The perfect moth is a modest-col-oared but pretty species, \ inch long when the wings are closed, mouse-coloured, bronzed 78. 62 Victoria. Sessional Papers (No. 23). A. 1899
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