Insects injurious to fruits . an inch long, of a bright-yellow color, with the head and twosmall protuberances on the hinder part of the back of a bril-liant coral-red. Along the back there are four cream-coloredbrush-like tufts, two long black plumes on the anterior partof the body, and one on the posterior. The sides are clothedwith long, fine yellow hairs. There is a narrow black orbrown stripe along the back, and a wider dusky stripe oneach side. There are two broods during the season, the firstcompleting their larval growth and spinning their cocoonsabout the middle of July; the second ha
Insects injurious to fruits . an inch long, of a bright-yellow color, with the head and twosmall protuberances on the hinder part of the back of a bril-liant coral-red. Along the back there are four cream-coloredbrush-like tufts, two long black plumes on the anterior partof the body, and one on the posterior. The sides are clothedwith long, fine yellow hairs. There is a narrow black orbrown stripe along the back, and a wider dusky stripe oneach side. There are two broods during the season, the firstcompleting their larval growth and spinning their cocoonsabout the middle of July; the second hatching towards thelast of July and completing their growth by the end ofAugust, the moths from these latter depositing the eggs,which remain on the trees during the winter. The cocoon, as already stated, is spun in the leaf; it is ofa loose texture, gray in color, and has woven into it numeroushairs derived from the body of the caterpillar. The enclosedchrysalis is of an oval form and brown color, sometimes whitish ATTACKING
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