. An encyclopædia of gardening; comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape-gardening, including all the latest improvements; a general history of gardening in all countries; and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress, in the British Isles. Gardening. Book IV. OF VERMIN. 433 2253. The moths (Phalcerue) are a numerous genus like the sphinges. They fly abroad only in the evening and during the night, and obtain their food from the nectar of flowers. The larva is active and quick m motion, and preys vora
. An encyclopædia of gardening; comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape-gardening, including all the latest improvements; a general history of gardening in all countries; and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress, in the British Isles. Gardening. Book IV. OF VERMIN. 433 2253. The moths (Phalcerue) are a numerous genus like the sphinges. They fly abroad only in the evening and during the night, and obtain their food from the nectar of flowers. The larva is active and quick m motion, and preys voraciously on the leaves of plants. The most remarkable British moths are the clothes- moth (P. sarcitella) {fig. 405. a); the eggs of which are deposited on woollen clothes, furs, &c. on which the larva? feed and change to chrysalids, appearing in the imago state in August. The most troublesome in gardens are the cabbage-moth (P. oleracea) (6), the gooseberry-moth (P. wavaria) (c), the currant-moth (P. grossularia) {d), and the codling-moth, common on fruit-trees, hedges, and oak-trees (P. pomonclld) (c). 405. 2254. Tfte neuroptera, or nerve-winged insects, have four naked membranaceous wings, but no stings; and they differ from the last order, as their wings are without their minute scales or down. Most of the insects in this family are aquatic, residing in the water during their immature state, and resorting thereto in their perfect state. 2255. The dragon-fly {LibelMa) is well known as frequenting rivers, lakes, pools, and stagnating waters, in which the females deposit their eggs. The egg, when deposited by the parent in the water, sinks to the bottom, and remains there till the young insect has acquired sufficient maturity and strength to burst from its confinement. The larva, at first small, increases to nearly half the size of the perfect fly, by changing its skin at different intervals, bke the caterpillars of moths and butterflies. The slender-bodieil dragon-fly (L.
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