. Insects injurious to fruits. Illustrated with four hundred and forty wood-cuts. Insect pests. yellowish band, speckled more or less with black. The body is covered with long straight hairs, grouped in tufts, arising from small black or orange-yel- low protuberances, of which there are a number on each segment. The hairs are sometimes of a dirty white, with a few black ones interspersed, sometimes red- dish brown; they are longest towards the extremities of the body. Unlike the common tent-caterpillars, these larvae do not wander from their nests to feed until nearly full grown, but extend th
. Insects injurious to fruits. Illustrated with four hundred and forty wood-cuts. Insect pests. yellowish band, speckled more or less with black. The body is covered with long straight hairs, grouped in tufts, arising from small black or orange-yel- low protuberances, of which there are a number on each segment. The hairs are sometimes of a dirty white, with a few black ones interspersed, sometimes red- dish brown; they are longest towards the extremities of the body. Unlike the common tent-caterpillars, these larvae do not wander from their nests to feed until nearly full grown, but extend the web over their w^hole feeding-ground, constantly enclosing fresh portions of the branch occupied, until sometimes the web covers a space several feet long, the whole enclosed portion having a scorched or withered look, as if it had been blighted. When nearly at their full growth, they suddenly abandon their social habits and scatter far and wide, feeding on almost any green thing they meet with. They are very active, and run briskly when disturbed. During September and October these caterpillars descend to the ground and burrow a short distance under the surface, or creep under crevices of bark or some such shelter above ground, where they form slight cocoons of silk, interwoven with hairs from their bodies. Within these cocoons they soon change to chrysalids of a dark-brown color (Fig. 67), Fig. 67. Fig. smooth, polished, and faintly punctated, with a swelling about the middle. In this condition they remain until the following year. The moth (Fig. 68) is of a milk-white color, without spots;. 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 may not perfectly resemble the original Saunders, William, 1836-1914. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & Co
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