Insects injurious to fruits . ^^t.^-P >? i sixteenth of an inch in diameter, with an ochreous-yellowspot on the upper side. They hatch towards the end of July. Fig. The newly-hatched larva is about one-third of an inch long,pale green, with yellow bands and faint rows of black tuber- ATTACKING THE LEAVES. 207 Fig. 213. cles. After it has passed the second moult it appears as seen at a. From the end of August until late in September it may be found full grown, when it measures two inches or more in length and about half an inch, in diameter, and presents the appearance shown at b in Fi
Insects injurious to fruits . ^^t.^-P >? i sixteenth of an inch in diameter, with an ochreous-yellowspot on the upper side. They hatch towards the end of July. Fig. The newly-hatched larva is about one-third of an inch long,pale green, with yellow bands and faint rows of black tuber- ATTACKING THE LEAVES. 207 Fig. 213. cles. After it has passed the second moult it appears as seen at a. From the end of August until late in September it may be found full grown, when it measures two inches or more in length and about half an inch, in diameter, and presents the appearance shown at b in Fig. 213. It is of a bluish-green or sometimes of a greenish-yellow color, with the head, feet, and hinder segments yellow. There are about eight small warts or short horns of a deep-blue color on each segment, except the two uppermost on the top of the third and fourth segments, which are of a rich coral-red color, and a long one on the top of the twelfth ring, which is yellow. Tiie caterpillar is found feed-ing on the cherry, ash, sassafras,poplar, azalea, cephalanthus, orbutton-bush, and other shrubsand trees. Although the ashis a very common food-plantfor the larva
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