Entomology for beginners; for the use of young folks, fruitgrowers, farmers, and gardeners; . are certain Pyralid moths which not only crumpleand roll up the leaves of plants, but piece out their minesby tubular additions to the openings, which form cases inwhich the caterpillar securely hides. As examples areAcrobasis juglandis and PUycita nebulo. Another Pyralid(Phycis riibnfascielld) mines the buds and recently ex-panded young leaves of the pig-hickory, and also boresinto the base of the leaf-stalks. It also builds out themouth of its mine, adding a tube formed of grains ofits excrement, in
Entomology for beginners; for the use of young folks, fruitgrowers, farmers, and gardeners; . are certain Pyralid moths which not only crumpleand roll up the leaves of plants, but piece out their minesby tubular additions to the openings, which form cases inwhich the caterpillar securely hides. As examples areAcrobasis juglandis and PUycita nebulo. Another Pyralid(Phycis riibnfascielld) mines the buds and recently ex-panded young leaves of the pig-hickory, and also boresinto the base of the leaf-stalks. It also builds out themouth of its mine, adding a tube formed of grains ofits excrement, in which it lives and finallytransforms. Besides mining leaves, which is one ofthe humblest kinds of architectural effort,certain Tineid moths construct flat, oval,or cylindrical silk-lined sacks or cases inwhich they live, and which, like Diogenesand his tub, they carry about with clothes-moth in its larval stage con-structs the too-familiar cases of felting,formed of closely-woven bits of woollen andlined with silk. A whole group of sack-bearers (Psychids), small and large, build. FIG. 231. —Case ofthe basket-worm.—After Harris.
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