. Elementary entomology. Insects. THE BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS 189 color, with golden bands and fringes, and expands four fifths of an inch. The meal snout-moth (Pyralis farinalis) also sometimes feeds on clover hay, though it is more commonly a pest of meal and flour, in which it spins silken tubes wherever it feeds. A thorough. FIG. 295. The Indian-meal moth (Plodia intcrpnnctclla}. (Enlarged) a, moth; />, pupa; c, f, caterpillar; d, head; e, first abdominal segment of same. (After Chittenden, United States Department of Agriculture) cleaning out of barns and grain rooms will usually prevent
. Elementary entomology. Insects. THE BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS 189 color, with golden bands and fringes, and expands four fifths of an inch. The meal snout-moth (Pyralis farinalis) also sometimes feeds on clover hay, though it is more commonly a pest of meal and flour, in which it spins silken tubes wherever it feeds. A thorough. FIG. 295. The Indian-meal moth (Plodia intcrpnnctclla}. (Enlarged) a, moth; />, pupa; c, f, caterpillar; d, head; e, first abdominal segment of same. (After Chittenden, United States Department of Agriculture) cleaning out of barns and grain rooms will usually prevent trouble from both of these pests. The subfamily riiycitinac includes another pair of pests of grain products,- -the Indian-meal moth (Tlodia interpunctclld], whose white larvae spin silken tubes in meal, dried fruits, and other stores which they infest, and the Mediter- ranean flour-moth, which has similar habits and has be- come a very serious pest of flour mills,. 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 Sanderson, Dwight, 1878-1944; Jackson, C. F. (Cicero Floyd), b. 1882. Boston, New York [etc. ] Ginn and Company
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