. Agriculture of Maine. ... annual report of the Secretary of the Maine Board of Agriculture. Agriculture -- Maine. DISCRIPTIOK. Perfect insect—A moth of a pale dull reddish or reddish brown color. The fore wings are crossed by two oblique parallel dirty white lines. The female is larger than the male. Their relative size is shown in Figs. 8 and 9. The male has feathery antennte. The moth has no power of taking food and lives only a few days. Its office is to lay the eggs. Eggs—From one to two hundred in number are laid, in clusters, composed of from ten to twenty rows, upon the smaller twigs.
. Agriculture of Maine. ... annual report of the Secretary of the Maine Board of Agriculture. Agriculture -- Maine. DISCRIPTIOK. Perfect insect—A moth of a pale dull reddish or reddish brown color. The fore wings are crossed by two oblique parallel dirty white lines. The female is larger than the male. Their relative size is shown in Figs. 8 and 9. The male has feathery antennte. The moth has no power of taking food and lives only a few days. Its office is to lay the eggs. Eggs—From one to two hundred in number are laid, in clusters, composed of from ten to twenty rows, upon the smaller twigs. The eggs are conical and about one-twentieth of an inch long. The clusters are covered over with a tenacious varnish that keeps out the rain. Fig. 10 shows an egg cluster with the varnish on, and Fig. 11, c, shows the arrangement of the eggs on the twig. FIG. 10 Larva—The young larvae are fully formed in the eggs in the fall and remain dormant until the first warm days of spring and then hatch. They can be made to hatch in the winter by bringing the clusters to the fire When first hatched they eat the gummy por- tions of the egg cluster covering, and if the leaves have not appeared can go several days without food. Worms hatched last spring in the house wandered about the twig for over a week before they died, after having eaten all the varnish, leaving the egg-shells bare. The larvffi early begin to construct their web which is increased in. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Maine. Board of Agriculture; Maine State Pomological Society. Annual report. Augusta
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