Economic entomology for the farmer Economic entomology for the economicentomolo00smit_0 Year: 1896 THE INSECT WORLD. 279 lighter in color, the white spot is much smaller, and the wings are not in the least transparent, but irrorated with darker, small spots, which give them a powdered appearance. On maples, especially in the more southern States, we often find a smaller caterpillar, which is green, with black stripes, and marked with little red dots. The resulting moth is known as the '' rosy Dryocampa,'' and has the fore-wings rose colored, Fig. 307. Dryocampa rubicunda.—a, its la
Economic entomology for the farmer Economic entomology for the economicentomolo00smit_0 Year: 1896 THE INSECT WORLD. 279 lighter in color, the white spot is much smaller, and the wings are not in the least transparent, but irrorated with darker, small spots, which give them a powdered appearance. On maples, especially in the more southern States, we often find a smaller caterpillar, which is green, with black stripes, and marked with little red dots. The resulting moth is known as the '' rosy Dryocampa,'' and has the fore-wings rose colored, Fig. 307. Dryocampa rubicunda.—a, its larva ; b, its pupa ; c, female moth : the rosy Dry 0 camp a. crossed by a broad pale-yellow band, while the hind wings are pale yellow, with a short rosy band behind the middle. It is rarely abundant enough to need attention, but when it does, the external feeding habit indicates the remedy at once. Next we reach the series of species that are silk-spinners par excellence in the caterpillar state. They are known in a general way as bombycids from the term Bo?nbyx, which was for a long time appHed to the 'silk-worm.' Among the largest of our Lepidoptera are the species of Attacus, which expand from four to eight inches, and are allied to the giants of the tropical region, which have a spread of wing of sometimes fully twelve inches. None of our species are ever numerous enough to be really troublesome, and they are interesting rather from the habits of the caterpillars, which, before changing to pupae, spin a very
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