. The book of the garden. Gardening. ]96 CULINARY OR KITCHEN GARDEN. and tender. We should not be surprised to see, ere long, a hot-water apparatus, somewhat simi- lar to Mr Fleming's excellent machine for de- stroying weeds in walks, in use in every garden for the destruction of insects alone. Bomhyx tubricipeda (Linn.), the spotted buff- moth, fig. 73, is particularly destructive: no plant Fig. 73. " The maggots produced from them eat into the pulp, and form large whitish blisters on Fig. SPOTTED BUFF-MOTH AND CATEBPILLAn. Natural size. seems to come amiss to it; it feeds on the tu
. The book of the garden. Gardening. ]96 CULINARY OR KITCHEN GARDEN. and tender. We should not be surprised to see, ere long, a hot-water apparatus, somewhat simi- lar to Mr Fleming's excellent machine for de- stroying weeds in walks, in use in every garden for the destruction of insects alone. Bomhyx tubricipeda (Linn.), the spotted buff- moth, fig. 73, is particularly destructive: no plant Fig. 73. " The maggots produced from them eat into the pulp, and form large whitish blisters on Fig. SPOTTED BUFF-MOTH AND CATEBPILLAn. Natural size. seems to come amiss to it; it feeds on the tur- nip, horse-radish, carrot, scarlet-runner, and even mint does not escape its ravages. In the months of May and June they are observed in pairs on walls, plants, &c., when they should be destroyed. It is of a pale ochre or buff colour; antennse black, bipectinate in the male; the eyes, feelers, and legs black, with the exception of the thighs, which are orange ; tarsi and hinder tibia buff; body buif; the upper wings have one or more ^dots, with two black spots upon the margin; it is, however, very variable in its markings, vary- ing from whitish buff to deep ochre, with large black spots. The eggs, which the female de- posits on the leaves of plants, are whitish, round, and smooth. The caterpillars, when first hatched, are of a yellowish white, with very few long hairs. When of full size, they are about an inch and a half long; they are then of a dark green, with a white line down each side. The stigmata white, and covered with reddish-brown hairs. It has six sharp-pointed pectoral feet, eight on the abdomen, and two hind ones, of a more fleshy nature. Aphis brasaicm (figs. 42, 43), the Aphis floris- rapse of some entomologists, is also destructive to turnip crops, and indeed to most plants of the same natural order. Aphis d/iibia (the black-spotted turnip-leaf plant-louse) is often found in company with A. ra/pai on the under sides of the leaves of turnips. Both these s
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