Indian forest insects of economic importance Coleoptera . cuts the stem down and keeps a section inwhich the caterpillar is known to be, as soon as the latter finds the bastor wood beginning to lose its sap and dry up it comes to the outside and ON THE LIFE HISTORIES OF FOREST INSECTS 29 usually dies there,or if it pupates themoth very rarelymatures so as to berecognizable. Ifthecaterpillar haspupated the pupalchamber contractsas the wood driesand shrinks, andthe pupa is killedor the moth is de-formed and unre-cognizable. A use-ful plan to obtainthe moth (and itcan be made toapply to securings
Indian forest insects of economic importance Coleoptera . cuts the stem down and keeps a section inwhich the caterpillar is known to be, as soon as the latter finds the bastor wood beginning to lose its sap and dry up it comes to the outside and ON THE LIFE HISTORIES OF FOREST INSECTS 29 usually dies there,or if it pupates themoth very rarelymatures so as to berecognizable. Ifthecaterpillar haspupated the pupalchamber contractsas the wood driesand shrinks, andthe pupa is killedor the moth is de-formed and unre-cognizable. A use-ful plan to obtainthe moth (and itcan be made toapply to securingsome of the bast-and sapwood-feed-ing beetles also)is to envelop thepart of the stemof a tree in whichyou have markeddown one of thesepests with mos-quito-netting, tyingit tightly above andbelow round thebark, and catch themoth when it issuesin this manner; orcut the whole treeinto sections andplace them in alarge insectary orbreeding cage, andcatch the moths asthey issue from thestems, as I was ableto do with themoths Duomitusceramicus and
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