. The Canadian horticulturist. Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario; Fruit-culture. 8 ONE OF OCR COMMON INSECTS. BY W. SAUNDERS. LON DON, ONIl Host of out readers will recognize in the accompanying cut, Fig. 1, ian object with which they are more or less familiar, although they may know little of its origin*or the nature of its contents. During the Winter months, when our trees and shrubs are leafless these curious silky structures are readily seen, and are found on many different trees land shrubs, but per- haps oftener on the twigs of apple trees and { -currant bushes than anywhere else. Th
. The Canadian horticulturist. Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario; Fruit-culture. 8 ONE OF OCR COMMON INSECTS. BY W. SAUNDERS. LON DON, ONIl Host of out readers will recognize in the accompanying cut, Fig. 1, ian object with which they are more or less familiar, although they may know little of its origin*or the nature of its contents. During the Winter months, when our trees and shrubs are leafless these curious silky structures are readily seen, and are found on many different trees land shrubs, but per- haps oftener on the twigs of apple trees and { -currant bushes than anywhere else. They ;are the cocoons of a very r targe and beautiful'^ moth, called the Cecro- pia moth, (Attacus •Cecropia,) which thus spends' the winter in a quiet and torpid con- dition. If you cut a twig on which one of these coc- oons has been hung, and «hake it, you. will feel tthat it contains a heavy body which is to some extent moveable, and. you can feel a slight (Mil thud as it falls from side to side. This winter home of the insect is about three inches long, shaped something like a pod, tapering towards each end, and invariably fastened lengthwise to the twig. It is of a dirty brown colour; the ex- terior is very close and 'papery like, although much wrinkled, and is quite impervious to wet. Let us look inside of it; underneath the close exterior we find a mass of loosely woven threads of strong yellow silk, which surround the dark brown chrysalis and fill the intervening space, the upper end of the cocoon where the moth is eventually to make its escape, being Fig. 1. much looser in texture than the other portions. The crysalis itself, the object of all this care, is smooth, of a dull brown colour, and about one of an inch broad in the widest portion and a half inches long, and. 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 t
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