. A manual of injurious insects [microform] : with methods of prevention and remedy for their attacks to food crops, forest trees, and fruit : to which is appended a short introduction to entomology. Insect pests; Agricultural pests; Entomology; Insectes nuisibles, Lutte contre les; Ennemis des cultures, Lutte contre les; Entomologie. MAGPIE MOTH. 811 The ogg-ono or more—is laid on tho loaves during mimnior, and the caterpillars apijoar towards August or Heptombor, nnd feed for a while. Before winter they secure themselves either by spinning themselves up in leaves, which hang by spun threads
. A manual of injurious insects [microform] : with methods of prevention and remedy for their attacks to food crops, forest trees, and fruit : to which is appended a short introduction to entomology. Insect pests; Agricultural pests; Entomology; Insectes nuisibles, Lutte contre les; Ennemis des cultures, Lutte contre les; Entomologie. MAGPIE MOTH. 811 The ogg-ono or more—is laid on tho loaves during mimnior, and the caterpillars apijoar towards August or Heptombor, nnd feed for a while. Before winter they secure themselves either by spinning themselves up in leaves, which hang by spun threads from the boughs, or by dropping with tho leaves and sheltering themselves at the surface of the ground. Next spring the caterpillars come out again and food on the new leafage, till towards May or the beginning of June they spni a ligh.: cocoon, in which they turn to chrysalids, trom winch the moth comes out towards the middle of the summer. The caterpillar is one of tho kind known as " loopers," from the pecuhar looped shape it assumes in walking (see fig., p. 310); the head is black; body cream-coloured, with a reddish orange stripe along tho sides, and large irregular black spots along the back; the whole of tlio second ling, and the under side of the third and fourth, and of the four nearest tho tail, are also reddish orange. The very gay colouring distin- guishes it plainly from the greenish or green and black-spotted caterpillar of the Gooseberry Sawlly, which is still more common and destructive, and as the Magpie caterpillar has only two pairs of sucker-feet (in addition to the three pairs of claw feet near the head), being therefore obliged to raise itself 1^*0 an upright loop when walking is another distinction. vVhen full fed it spins a light transparent cocoon attached to twigs, or palings, or in crevices of walls; and in this it changes to a chrysalis, yellow at first, but afterwards shining black, with orange-coloured rings, from which the moth comes o
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