. Agriculture of Maine : ... annual report of the Commissioner of Agriculture of the State of Maine. Agriculture -- Maine. REPORT OF state; ENTOMOLOGIST. 187 color, the fore wings being spotted with darker shades. The hind wings are of a uniform light brown color darker on the veins. The body is slender and tapering to the end, without a tuft. The wings expand about 13^ inches. The moth is an active flyer, usually appearing before the female and flies by day as well as night. The female (Fig. 5) is very light, almost white in color, with very thin, semi-opaque wings, the fore wings being marke
. Agriculture of Maine : ... annual report of the Commissioner of Agriculture of the State of Maine. Agriculture -- Maine. REPORT OF state; ENTOMOLOGIST. 187 color, the fore wings being spotted with darker shades. The hind wings are of a uniform light brown color darker on the veins. The body is slender and tapering to the end, without a tuft. The wings expand about 13^ inches. The moth is an active flyer, usually appearing before the female and flies by day as well as night. The female (Fig. 5) is very light, almost white in color, with very thin, semi-opaque wings, the fore wings being marked with a row of brown spots along the margin and several irregu- lar wavy lines and spots of the same color over the body of the wing. The hind wings are uniformly light, with a somewhat indistinct, marginal row of brown spots between the veins. The. Fig. 5—Female Gipsy Moih. body is unusually large for a moth of the same wing expanse, which accounts for its inability to fly. The end of the body terminates quite abruptly and is covered with light brown or yellowish hairs, which are used in covering the egg clusters. The antennae of the female are slender, while those of the male are quite broadly feathered, brown in color. Those of the female are black. Soon after mating, the female moth deposits her egg clusters, as previously described, and then dies. The insect remains in the egg stage about nine months of the year; is active in the caterpillar stage, the only time it is doing damage to vegetation, for about two months. This period is through May and June, the pupa and adult stages lasting the remaining month. These stages may vary to quite an extent, depending upon the season. 1 have stated about the average time for Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Maine. Dept. of Agriculture. Au
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