. Economic entomology for the farmer and the fruit grower, and for use as a text-book in agricultural schools and colleges; . Dryocampa rubicunda.—a, its larva ; b, its pupa ; r, female moth : the rosy Dryocampa. crossed by a broad pale-yellow band, while the hind wings are pale yellow, with a short rosy band behind the middle. It is rarely abundant enough to need attention, but when it does, the external feeding habit indicates the remedy at once. Next we reach the series of species that are silk-spinners par excellence in the caterpillar state. They are known in a general way as bombycids fr
. Economic entomology for the farmer and the fruit grower, and for use as a text-book in agricultural schools and colleges; . Dryocampa rubicunda.—a, its larva ; b, its pupa ; r, female moth : the rosy Dryocampa. crossed by a broad pale-yellow band, while the hind wings are pale yellow, with a short rosy band behind the middle. It is rarely abundant enough to need attention, but when it does, the external feeding habit indicates the remedy at once. Next we reach the series of species that are silk-spinners par excellence in the caterpillar state. They are known in a general way as bombycids from the term Bonibyx^ which was for a long time applied to the "; Among the largest of our Lepidoptera are the species of Attacus, which expand from four to eight inches, and are allied to the giants of the tropical region, which have a spread of wing of sometimes fully twelve inches. None of our species are ever numerous enough to be really troublesome, and they are interesting rather from the habits of the caterpillars, which, before changing to pupae, spin a very
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