Insects injurious to fruits . oblong-oval form, with rather long legs, and is distendedwith eggs; indeed, she is more like an animated bag of eggsthan anything else. (See Fig. 52, where she is representedattached to the empty cocoon from which she has escaped.)After her escape, she patiently waits the attendance of themale, and then begins to place her eggs on the outside ofher own cocoon, fastening them there in the manner alreadydescribed. During this process her body contracts verymuch, and soon after her work is finished she drops downto the ground and dies. The male moth (Fig. 53) is of a
Insects injurious to fruits . oblong-oval form, with rather long legs, and is distendedwith eggs; indeed, she is more like an animated bag of eggsthan anything else. (See Fig. 52, where she is representedattached to the empty cocoon from which she has escaped.)After her escape, she patiently waits the attendance of themale, and then begins to place her eggs on the outside ofher own cocoon, fastening them there in the manner alreadydescribed. During this process her body contracts verymuch, and soon after her work is finished she drops downto the ground and dies. The male moth (Fig. 53) is of an ashen-gray color, thefore wings being crossed by wavy bands of a darker shade ;there is a small black spot on the outer edge near the tip, anoblique blackish stripe beyond it, and a minute white crescentnear the outer hind angle. The body is gray, with a smallblack tuft near the base of the abdomen. The wings, whenexpanded, measure about an inch and a quarter across. 60 INSECTS jyjUJUOUS TO THE APPLE. Since the female is wi
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