Elementary entomology . elementaryentomo00sand Year: [c1912] marked with six black lines and with a black dot on the side of each segment. The currant span-worm (Diastictis ribcaria) is a yellow, black- spotted looper, which often appears in such numbers on cur- rant and gooseberry bushes as to defoliate them very quickly. The moths are pale yellow, marked with irregular, dusky spots. Most of the moths of the subfamily Geometrinae are of a green color with the wings barred more or less distinctly with whitish lines. The larvae of one of these, the raspberry geometer (Synchlora glait- can'a),
Elementary entomology . elementaryentomo00sand Year: [c1912] marked with six black lines and with a black dot on the side of each segment. The currant span-worm (Diastictis ribcaria) is a yellow, black- spotted looper, which often appears in such numbers on cur- rant and gooseberry bushes as to defoliate them very quickly. The moths are pale yellow, marked with irregular, dusky spots. Most of the moths of the subfamily Geometrinae are of a green color with the wings barred more or less distinctly with whitish lines. The larvae of one of these, the raspberry geometer (Synchlora glait- can'a), feeds on the fruit and foliage of the raspberry, cover- ing itself with bits of vegetable matter, thus masking itself beneath what is apparently a little heap of rubbish. The owlet-moths (Noctuidae) are by far the largest family of the order, including some twenty-one hundred species, ' three times as many as there •/ are North American species of birds,' and form the great bulk of the moths commonly taken by collectors. As their name
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