Insects injurious to fruits . led the neck, of a dull orange color, a black stripe ex-tending down the back, and three stripes of the same coloralternating with four yellow stripes on each side. The bodyis thinly clothed with long, soft, whitish hairs. The larvaeare invariably found clustered closely together on a limb, onwhich, beginning with the tender leaves at the extremity, theygradually devour all before them, leaving the branch per-fectly bare. Its leafless condition soon attracts attention, andon examination it is found to be loaded with these caterpil-lars crowded together. The positi
Insects injurious to fruits . led the neck, of a dull orange color, a black stripe ex-tending down the back, and three stripes of the same coloralternating with four yellow stripes on each side. The bodyis thinly clothed with long, soft, whitish hairs. The larvaeare invariably found clustered closely together on a limb, onwhich, beginning with the tender leaves at the extremity, theygradually devour all before them, leaving the branch per-fectly bare. Its leafless condition soon attracts attention, andon examination it is found to be loaded with these caterpil-lars crowded together. The position they assume when atrest is very odd, and is well shown in Fig. 55; both ex-tremities are raised, the body being bent, and resting onlyon the four middle pairs of legs. If touched or alarmed,they throw uj) their heads and tails with a jerk, at the sametime bending the body until the two extremities almost meetover the back; they also jerk their heads from side to all eat together, crowded upon the under surface of. 62 INSECTS INJURIOUS TO THE APPLE. the leaves, along the margins of which appears a row ofshining black heads, with each mouth busily engaged in de-vouring the portion near it, and whenFjg- 55. the meal is finished they arrange themselves side by side along thebranches which they have one branch does not afford foodenough, they attack another; andwhen full grown and ready to trans-form, they nearly all leave the treeat the same time, descending by nightto the ground, where they burrowunder the surface to the depth of from two to four inches,and after a time cast their caterpillar skins and becomenaked, brown chrysalids. They remain in the pupa stateuntil the following July, when the moths escape and takewing. Although sometimes very abundant and destructive, thisinsect is not usually very common; some years a few clustersmay be seen, and then several seasons may pass before theyare met with again. The nakedness of the limbs they attacksoon att
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