. A manual of injurious insects [microform] : with methods of prevention and remedy for their attacks to food crops, forest trees, and fruit : to which is appended a short introduction to entomology. Insect pests; Agricultural pests; Entomology; Insectes nuisibles, Lutte contre les; Ennemis des cultures, Lutte contre les; Entomologie. 292 APPLE. 'MIH found from September onwards in the latter part of the year; and on Noveml)ev 18tli Mr. C. D. Wise reported to me from Toddington, " We have found and are now catching, by means of the lamps, the Figure-of-8 ; The arrange- ment used
. A manual of injurious insects [microform] : with methods of prevention and remedy for their attacks to food crops, forest trees, and fruit : to which is appended a short introduction to entomology. Insect pests; Agricultural pests; Entomology; Insectes nuisibles, Lutte contre les; Ennemis des cultures, Lutte contre les; Entomologie. 292 APPLE. 'MIH found from September onwards in the latter part of the year; and on Noveml)ev 18tli Mr. C. D. Wise reported to me from Toddington, " We have found and are now catching, by means of the lamps, the Figure-of-8 ; The arrange- ment used in this case was by placing a lighted lamp under an open shed, the underneath part of the roof or boards being tarred and groased. The various kinds of washes or sprayings used to destroy other orchard moth-caterpillars (for which see Index) would be equally serviceable in the case of this attack. Lackey Moth. liomhi/x {Gdstcropacha) ywHtilria, Linn., CliHiovmnpa nemiria, 1, Cluster of eggs; 2, caterpillar (about one-third longer and wider than natural size); 3, moth. The caterpillars of the Lackey Moth are injurious to the leafage of Apples and other orchard trees, as well as to White- thorn, Sloe, Oak, Elm, Birch, &c. They are very easily known by their gay colouring, from which they take their German name of " Livery Caterpillars," and the moth, the name of " Lackey ; When full fed (which is about midsummer) the caterpillars arc about an inch and a half in length, and hairy; of a bluish grey colour, marked with two black eye-like spots on the head, two black spots with a scarlet space between them on the next ring, and three scarlet or orange stripes along each side, between the two lowest of which on each side there is a blue stripe ; these gaily-coloured markings being divided by lines of black, or black spotted with blue. The eggs are laid in the summer or autumn of the preceding year to that in which the attack takes place, and. Ple
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