Insects injurious to fruits . ry active on the wing, the resemblance becomes stillmore striking. The moth appears in the Northern States andCanada from about the middle of July to the end of August;in the South it appears much earlier,—in some localities asearly as the latter part of May. The sexes differ very muchin appearance. In Fig. 203, a represents the female, and 6the male. The femaleis much the larger,and has a broad, heavyabdomen. The bodyis of a glossy steel-bluecolor with a purplishreflection, and a broadband of orange-yellowacross the abdomen. The fore wings are opaque, and similar
Insects injurious to fruits . ry active on the wing, the resemblance becomes stillmore striking. The moth appears in the Northern States andCanada from about the middle of July to the end of August;in the South it appears much earlier,—in some localities asearly as the latter part of May. The sexes differ very muchin appearance. In Fig. 203, a represents the female, and 6the male. The femaleis much the larger,and has a broad, heavyabdomen. The bodyis of a glossy steel-bluecolor with a purplishreflection, and a broadband of orange-yellowacross the abdomen. The fore wings are opaque, and similarin color to the body, their tips and fringes having a purplishtint both above and beneath. The hind wings are transparentand broadly margined with steel-blue; when the wings are ex-panded, the moth measures about an inch and a half male is smaller, its wings seldom measuring more thanan inch; its body, which is also of steel-blue color, with golden-yellow markings and a glossy, satin-like lustre, is much more 191. 192 INSECTS INJURIOUS TO THE PEACH. slender than that of the female. The antennae are blackand densely fringed on tiie inner side with numerous fine,short hairs, the latter a feature absent in the female. Thehead and thorax are marked with yellow, and the abdomenhas two slender yellow bands above, and a white line on eachside of the tuft of hairs at its tip. The wings are transparent,the veins, margins, and fringe steel-blue, and a steel-blue bandextends nearly across beyond the middle. The feet and legsare marked with yellow and white. The female deposits her eggs on the bark of the tree aithe surface of the ground. They are about one-fiftieth of annch long, with a sculptured surface, oval in form, slightlyflattened, and of a dull-yellowish color. They are depositedsingly, are fastened to the surface of the bark by a gummysecretion, and sometimes have a few of the dark-blue scalesfrom the tip of the abdomen of the female attached to them. As soon as the
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