. The American fruit culturist. oes much damage in many sectionsof the country. A little brown caterpillar comes from asilken home, in which it hibernated, and proceeds to eat intothe opening buds. It soon ruins the opening flowers and tiesthem and the leaves together into a nest, as shown in The brown caterpillars get full grown in June, whenthey measure about half an inch in length, and then soonundergo their transformations to the adult insect, the moth,shown in Fig. 231. The moths soon lay their eggs on theleaves and the young caterpillars mine in the leaves untiltime to go into w
. The American fruit culturist. oes much damage in many sectionsof the country. A little brown caterpillar comes from asilken home, in which it hibernated, and proceeds to eat intothe opening buds. It soon ruins the opening flowers and tiesthem and the leaves together into a nest, as shown in The brown caterpillars get full grown in June, whenthey measure about half an inch in length, and then soonundergo their transformations to the adult insect, the moth,shown in Fig. 231. The moths soon lay their eggs on theleaves and the young caterpillars mine in the leaves untiltime to go into winter quarters in their silken homes on thebranches near the buds. It requires intelligent and persistent work with a Paris DESTRUCTIVE INSECTS. 171 green or other poisonous spray in the spring to control thisserious pest; it is usually necessary to make two thorough ap-plications before the blossoms open. Caiiker-wor>ns are among the most destructive of apple are measuring-worms from an inch to an inch and a half. Fig. 233.—Spring Canker-worm.—Larva; female; male. in length, and finally develop into small moths, the femalesof which (Fig. 233) have no wings. There are several differ-ent kinds of canker-worms, and they often work together inthe same orchard. They consume the foliage, except the largerleaf veins, and give the trees a scorched appearance from adistance, so that the insects are known as fire-worms insome localities. We have seen thousands of acres of apple
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