. Common injurious insects of Kansas. Insect pests; Insects. INSECTS ATTACKING LARGE FRUITS. 85 State Horticultural Society for 1882, Mr. A. N. Godfrey says of this pest: During the late summer months our forest trees became partially covered with a thick web, spun among the outer branches and terminal shoots. . The Web-worm is found on most of our forest and fruit-trees, but seems to prefer the hickory and walnut among the for- mer, and the pear among the latter. APPLE-TREE TENT CATERPILLAR. (Clisiocampa americana Harris; Order, Lepidoptera.) Diagnosis.—Hairy, blackish caterpillars, two inche
. Common injurious insects of Kansas. Insect pests; Insects. INSECTS ATTACKING LARGE FRUITS. 85 State Horticultural Society for 1882, Mr. A. N. Godfrey says of this pest: During the late summer months our forest trees became partially covered with a thick web, spun among the outer branches and terminal shoots. . The Web-worm is found on most of our forest and fruit-trees, but seems to prefer the hickory and walnut among the for- mer, and the pear among the latter. APPLE-TREE TENT CATERPILLAR. (Clisiocampa americana Harris; Order, Lepidoptera.) Diagnosis.—Hairy, blackish caterpillars, two inches or less in length; white stripe along the back; feeding on the leaves in May and June; silken webs or " tents " in which the caterpillars lie at night, on stormy days, and at other times when not feeding. Description and Life-history.—The adult is a reddish-brown moth, with conspicuously (male) or inconspicuously (female) feathered antenna; expanse of wings about 1 Hnches. The moth appears in June, and is unprovided with developed mouth-parts. It deposits its eggs and soon dies. The eggs are deposited in masses of two or three hundred, arranged in "ring- like clusters" on the twigs. The egg mass is covered with a sort of varnish unaffected by rain. The larva? do not come from the eggs until the following spring, hatching about May 1, at the time the first leaf buds are expanding. They feed five or six weeks before becoming full-grown. The "tents" are spun immediately after hatching, and en- larged, or new ones spun as nec- essary. The full-grown larv?e are almost two inches long, " hairy and black, with a white stripe down the back, and on each side of this central stripe there are i. Fig. 47. Apple-tree Tent Cater- pillar; a, larva; b, cluster of eggs around Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations
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