. The insect and other allied pests of orchard, bush and hothouse fruits and their prevention and treatment . Insect pests; Fruit. Insects TnJHrious to the Ajjple. 157 once or twice noticed a few on tlie smaller lioiinlis. Many years a^n Mr. Fred Smith, who first pointed out the es;^s to me, noticeil that they were nl'ten laid in a line, end to end; 1 have only seen this occasionally since and then M'hen laid amongst the line hairs. The ova (Figs. l:;i and 132) when first laid are wlute, tlien they become creamy-yellow and later assume a i'aintly rnsty-red hui' before hatching. Fnrley
. The insect and other allied pests of orchard, bush and hothouse fruits and their prevention and treatment . Insect pests; Fruit. Insects TnJHrious to the Ajjple. 157 once or twice noticed a few on tlie smaller lioiinlis. Many years a^n Mr. Fred Smith, who first pointed out the es;^s to me, noticeil that they were nl'ten laid in a line, end to end; 1 have only seen this occasionally since and then M'hen laid amongst the line hairs. The ova (Figs. l:;i and 132) when first laid are wlute, tlien they become creamy-yellow and later assume a i'aintly rnsty-red hui' before hatching. Fnrley ((i) dcscrilies them as liecnming a pale yellow-red also. Th(.;y are elongated oval in Ibrni, somewhat pointed •at the ends, one of winch is prudin.'ed into a thin process which is apparently curled under the (?gg and cannot easily be seen unless the ovnnr is ^-c^•y carefully remii\-('d. What this process is we do not at present know. Furley, in his careful oliser\ations, found that in Worcestershire in I'Jdfi very few eggs were laid nntil the middle of (October. In Kent we have found many as early as the lidth of Sep- temfier. La\dng certainly may go on until Xovember in late years. Mr. Getting records (8) that at I Joss he found ]ilenty of eggs on the 14tli of September, and at Fershore they were observed some da3's earlier. With fresh eggs we nnr>' also find numbers of empty egg-shells; sometimes I have counted twenty empty shells to one sound one. These are mainly old shells of the previous broods, Ijut some few may have been destroyed by iiredaceons mites, for in some twigs sent me by Messrs. Calelj Lee and Sons, of Swanley, a small red acarus was watched destroying them. The presence of these old egg-shells is verv important. They explain tlie frec|uent errors that have been made in regard ; washes liaving destroyed the ova. Another point of great interest concerning the eggs is the irregu- larity with which they hatch out. The date not only varies in di
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