Insects injurious to fruits . of the body is dis-tinctly seen. The head is of a shining black color, the upper 314 INSECTS INJURIOUS TO THE RASPBERRY. Fig. 325. portion overhung by the long hairs of tlie next under side is greenish brown, with a few small clustersof short brown hairs. The larva changes to a brown chrysalis within a rather tough cocoon formed of pieces of leaves interwoven with silk. The moth (Fig. 325) has the fore wings gray, mottled with spots, streaks, and dots of darker shades of gray and brown. The hind wings are of a dull palegray, deepening in color a little
Insects injurious to fruits . of the body is dis-tinctly seen. The head is of a shining black color, the upper 314 INSECTS INJURIOUS TO THE RASPBERRY. Fig. 325. portion overhung by the long hairs of tlie next under side is greenish brown, with a few small clustersof short brown hairs. The larva changes to a brown chrysalis within a rather tough cocoon formed of pieces of leaves interwoven with silk. The moth (Fig. 325) has the fore wings gray, mottled with spots, streaks, and dots of darker shades of gray and brown. The hind wings are of a dull palegray, deepening in color a littletowards the outer margin. Theunder surface is paler than theupper. When the wings are ex-panded, they measure about an inchand a quarter this insect ever become troublesome, it may be sub-dued by hand-picking, or destroyed by showering the busheswith water in which hellebore or Paris-green has been mixed,in the proportion of an ounce of the former or one or twoteaspoonfuls of the latter to two gallons of Fig. 326. No. 182.—The Raspberry Plume-motli. Oxyptilus nigrocUialus Zeller. The caterpillar of this pretty little plume-moth has notin any instance on record been sufficiently numerous to be considered destructive, yetit is an interesting insect, andon this account deserves a pass-ing notice. About the middleof June the larva reaches fullgrowth, when it is about four-tenths of an inch long, of a paleyellowish-green color, streaked with pale yellow, and withtransverse rows of shining tubercles, from each of which arisefrom two to six spreading hairs of a yellowish-green head is small, pale green, with a faint brown dot on eachBide. Fig. 326 represents this larva, much magnified.
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