Economic entomology for the farmer Economic entomology for the economicentomolo00smit_0 Year: 1896 THE INSECT WORLD. orchards very early in the spring. During the winter we often find on the small twigs of the apple an incomplete belt of a very dark brown, wax- like material. If we 314- examine this carefully we find it to consist of a very large number of eggs soldered together, from which caterpillars hatch, sometimes be- fore the leaves have started, which at once spin a little web or tent in the nearest fork. Here they live in com- pany, moving out from time to time to feed upon
Economic entomology for the farmer Economic entomology for the economicentomolo00smit_0 Year: 1896 THE INSECT WORLD. orchards very early in the spring. During the winter we often find on the small twigs of the apple an incomplete belt of a very dark brown, wax- like material. If we 314- examine this carefully we find it to consist of a very large number of eggs soldered together, from which caterpillars hatch, sometimes be- fore the leaves have started, which at once spin a little web or tent in the nearest fork. Here they live in com- pany, moving out from time to time to feed upon the surrounding leaves, and increasing the size of their habita- tion as they grow. The *' tents'' form promi- nent and unsightly objects in neglected orchards, and are some- times rather unpleas- antly conspicuous in others that purport to be well kept. When full-grown the cater- pillars abandon the nest, crawl to some convenient shelter in the vicinity, and spin a yellow, rather thin cocoon, which becomes covered with a fine yellow powder. The moth is dull reddish in color, more or less brown-tinged, and the fore-wings have two oblique, pale stripes. The males are considerably smaller than the females, and as a rule darker in color, tending to have the wing between the lines The American tent-caterpillars, a and on the out- side of their tent near the entrance; d, cocoon ; c, egg-mass of an allied species ; above all the female moth, Clisiocampa america?ia.
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