. The American entomologist. Entomology. 128 THE AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGIST. <i( crevices. Tin eggs there elude Ucti ttioii. Ik ing ot .i dai-k-browu, inclining to purple. Tlie joiuig «onn'! which hatch from them are aUo Jark-brown, with large licads; they are aclne and connuence ^pinning as won as they are born. , Ihi'. lM^ect si Idoni becomes numerous enough to caiisie ^eiiou- ., as to combat it on a large scale would be difficult Spi tices inaj \. )>«? saved from its attacks by an application of soft soap as far up the trunk as possible, about the end of June, as it wi
. The American entomologist. Entomology. 128 THE AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGIST. <i( crevices. Tin eggs there elude Ucti ttioii. Ik ing ot .i dai-k-browu, inclining to purple. Tlie joiuig «onn'! which hatch from them are aUo Jark-brown, with large licads; they are aclne and connuence ^pinning as won as they are born. , Ihi'. lM^ect si Idoni becomes numerous enough to caiisie ^eiiou- ., as to combat it on a large scale would be difficult Spi tices inaj \. )>«? saved from its attacks by an application of soft soap as far up the trunk as possible, about the end of June, as it will prevent the moths depositing. At this time also, the moths may be caught and destroyed from oft' trees already infested, by visiting such trees early in the morning, (or the moths are then .quite sluggish, having emerged from the tree during the night, leaving their empty chrysalis skins protruding hall way out of the holes. This insect attacks the Oak as well as the 'Slack I/ocust, and, judging'ftom specimens which we received a year ago from Mr. J. Huggins, of Wood- burn, Ills., it also the Crab-apple. According 11 Dr. Fitch, it is more common in Oak in the Eastern folates than in Locust; but we ha\c found it more partial to the Locust in the West. Eggs of Snowy Tree Cricket on Raspberry Canes—./. B. Root, Uoalcford, Ills.—The straightrows of punctures on your Doolittle Black-Cap Raspberry canes, the punctures contiguous to each other, with an egg placed slantingly across the pith leading from each, are made by the Snowy Tree Cricket {(Eeanthw nireiu, Amehican ENTOMOLOGIST, Vol. I, Figs. ;e mistaken at first for \vorms by the unskilled, yet no entomologist would ever niistak'; them for such. An egg—no matter how narrow or long it may be—can always be distinguished ))y its lacking entirely those articulations which are so characteristic of all insect larvie, and of most other worms. The cane will be very apt to die above these deposits, and to prevent the
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