. Insects injurious to fruits. Illustrated with four hundred and forty wood-cuts. Insect pests. 120 INSECTS INJURIOUS TO THE APPLE. There is a conspicuous black spot near the fringe, from which arises a pencil of black hairs. The larva (Fig. 118), which feeds on apple-leaves, is small, flattened, and of a green color. It constructs from the skin of the leaf a flattened, oval case, in Fig. 118. J^ig. 119. vvhich it lives; the case is open at each ^y^^'T/jS [ end, and is drawn about by the larva \ as it moves from place to place. The case is represented in Fig. 119. (Both ^ case and larva are ma
. Insects injurious to fruits. Illustrated with four hundred and forty wood-cuts. Insect pests. 120 INSECTS INJURIOUS TO THE APPLE. There is a conspicuous black spot near the fringe, from which arises a pencil of black hairs. The larva (Fig. 118), which feeds on apple-leaves, is small, flattened, and of a green color. It constructs from the skin of the leaf a flattened, oval case, in Fig. 118. J^ig. 119. vvhich it lives; the case is open at each ^y^^'T/jS [ end, and is drawn about by the larva \ as it moves from place to place. The case is represented in Fig. 119. (Both ^ case and larva are mac^nified.) The larva becomes full grow^n about the end of August, and attaches its cocoon to the bark of the tree on which it is feeding, changing there to a chrysalis, in which condition it remains until the following spring. No. 55.—The Rosy Hispa. Odontota rosea (Weber). This is a small, flat, rough, coarsely-punctated beetle, its wing-covers forming an oblong square, as shown in Fig. 120; there are three smooth, raised, longitudinal lines on each of them, spotted with red, while the spaces between Fig. 120. are deeply punctated with double rows of dots. The head is small, the antennae short, thickened towards the end, and the thorax rough above, striped with deep red on each side. The under side of the body is usually darker in color, some- times blackish. This beetle is found from the latter part of May until the middle of June, and deposits its eggs on the leaves of the apple-tree. These are small, rough, and of a blackish color, fastened to the surface of the leaves, sometimes singly and sometimes in clusters of four or five. The larvae, w\hen hatched, eat their way into the interior of the leaf, where they feed upon its green, pulpy substance, leaving the skin above and below entire, which soon turns brow^n and dry, forming a blister-like spot. The larva, when. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced f
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