Insects injurious to fruits . 36 INSECTS IprjuRIOVS TO THE APPLE. transparent, the thick anterior edge and large veins areorange-red, and near the front margin, towards the tip, thereis a dusky, zigzag line resembling a W. The rings of theabdomen are edged with dull orange, and the legs are of thesame hue. The locusts appear in the South earlier thau in Fig. the North; their usual time is during the latter part of May,and they disappear early in July. After pairing, the female dei)Osits her eggs in the twigs ofdifferent trees, puncturing and sawing small slits in them, asshown in Fig. 24,
Insects injurious to fruits . 36 INSECTS IprjuRIOVS TO THE APPLE. transparent, the thick anterior edge and large veins areorange-red, and near the front margin, towards the tip, thereis a dusky, zigzag line resembling a W. The rings of theabdomen are edged with dull orange, and the legs are of thesame hue. The locusts appear in the South earlier thau in Fig. the North; their usual time is during the latter part of May,and they disappear early in July. After pairing, the female dei)Osits her eggs in the twigs ofdifferent trees, puncturing and sawing small slits in them, asshown in Fig. 24, d, which she does by means of her sharpbeak, which is composed of three portions; the two outer arebeset with small teeth like a saw, Avhile the centre one is aspear-pointed i^iercer. In these slits she places her (e, Fig. 24) are of a pearly-white color, one-twelfthof an inch long, and taper to an obtuse point at each are deposited in pairs, side by side, with a portion ofwoody fibre between them, and placed in the cavity some-what obliquely, so that one end points upwards. When two ATTACKING THE BRANCHES. 37 eggs have thus been deposited, the insect withdraws her piercerfor a moment, and then inserts it again and drops two more eggsin a line with the first, and so on until she has filled the slitfrom one end to the other. She then r
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