. Insects injurious to fruits. Illustrated with four hundred and forty wood-cuts. Insect pests. fg INSECTS INJURIOUS TO THE APPLE. .^ When ready to transform, it attaches itself to a limb and there encloses itself in a gray cocoon, which appears like a slight swelling of the limb, and in this enclosure it changes to a brown chrysalis, in which state it remains until the month of June following, when the perfect insect escapes. The moth (Fig. S6) is of a tawny reddish-brown color, with the hinder and inner edges of the fore wings and the outer edges of the hind wings Fig. 86. notched; the notch
. Insects injurious to fruits. Illustrated with four hundred and forty wood-cuts. Insect pests. fg INSECTS INJURIOUS TO THE APPLE. .^ When ready to transform, it attaches itself to a limb and there encloses itself in a gray cocoon, which appears like a slight swelling of the limb, and in this enclosure it changes to a brown chrysalis, in which state it remains until the month of June following, when the perfect insect escapes. The moth (Fig. S6) is of a tawny reddish-brown color, with the hinder and inner edges of the fore wings and the outer edges of the hind wings Fig. 86. notched; the notches are mar- gined with white. Both pairs of wings are crossed by a rather broad, interrupted, whitish band, not very clearly shown in the figure, which, on the anterior wings, does not always extend to the front margin. In the female the pale bands and dark lines are sometimes wanting, the wings being almost entirely of a red-brown color. The moth measures, when its wnngs are expanded, from an inch and a half to an inch and three- quarters across. The eggs are laid on the leaves of the apple tree late in June, and are very pretty objects under a magnifying-glass. They measure about one-twentieth of an inch long, are oval, flattened at the base and also above, and a little thicker at one end than at the other. In color they are white, with peculiar black markings; at each end is a crescent-shaped stripe, with a dot below it, and on both the flattened surfaces there are markings like eyes, each formed by an oval spot in the centre, with a curved stripe above and a shorter straight one below; between and parallel to the two eyebrow-like marks there is another black stripe. The whole surface is covered with a net-work, the meshes of which are irregular, with a depressed dot in the centre of each. This insect feeds also on the cherry and the oak. It is not at all common, and probably will never be a source of much annoyance to the Please note that these images are ext
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