. The book of the garden. Gardening. SAW-FLY AND GRUB. fore is that in which it may be most advanta- geously combated. 192. These caterpillars are rather pale, dirty, bufPcolour- ed; the head tawny, and with a very slenderpinkish line down the back; the body, is very much wrinkled trans- versely, and is fur- nished with three ordinary pairs of thoracic legs, with six pairs of very short ventral pro- legs, and with an- other pair of the latter at the extre- mity of the body, thus making twenty legs in the whole. These larvae, hav- ing eaten their way out of the apples, descend into the e
. The book of the garden. Gardening. SAW-FLY AND GRUB. fore is that in which it may be most advanta- geously combated. 192. These caterpillars are rather pale, dirty, bufPcolour- ed; the head tawny, and with a very slenderpinkish line down the back; the body, is very much wrinkled trans- versely, and is fur- nished with three ordinary pairs of thoracic legs, with six pairs of very short ventral pro- legs, and with an- other pair of the latter at the extre- mity of the body, thus making twenty legs in the whole. These larvae, hav- ing eaten their way out of the apples, descend into the earth, where they form their cocoons, and remain in- active until the following year. In the middle of the month of May we again directed our attention, to the same apple trees which had afforded us these larvae in the preceding summer, and which were now coming into full blossom. We now observed many specimens of the perfect saw-fly, produced from the Jast year's larvae, flying about the blossoms, within which they settled; and we distinctly saw one of the females bend down the extremity of the body in the act of depositing an egg within the blossom ; but they are at this time exceedingly timid, so as not to allow of our approach. The upper sur- face of the body is shining black, the front and sides of the head, and the shoulders, antennae, legs; and under side of the body, being pale orange-coloured, and the wings are slightly stained with ; As the apples attacked by this insect fall to the ground before ripening, the remedy presents itself to us—namely, gathering the fallen fruit, and consigning it to the nearest fire. The American orchardists are greatly annoyed by several species of insects apparently not in- digenous to Europe. As, however, the Aphis lanigera, or American blight, as it is usually called, was imported to the New World from the Old, and the almost equally destructive codlin moth, Carpooapsapomonana, has also been trans- ported along with apple t
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