Report of the Commissioners . • : Mi£^ apple-trees. Thes**, during the next five or six weeks, hatch into cat(!rj)illars, which finallygrow to be three or four inches long, and about as thick as a mans finger or a littlethicker. They are green in colour, and are coVered with warts ; thos(^ on the top of theanterior segments are h>rge, and of a coral red colour, the remaindci- are yellow, exceptingthose on the second and hinch^r segments, which, in common with tin; smaller ones alongthe sides, are >»lue {see Fig. 70). Early in the autumn the larva spins its strong silkencocoon, perhaps th
Report of the Commissioners . • : Mi£^ apple-trees. Thes**, during the next five or six weeks, hatch into cat(!rj)illars, which finallygrow to be three or four inches long, and about as thick as a mans finger or a littlethicker. They are green in colour, and are coVered with warts ; thos(^ on the top of theanterior segments are h>rge, and of a coral red colour, the remaindci- are yellow, exceptingthose on the second and hinch^r segments, which, in common with tin; smaller ones alongthe sides, are >»lue {see Fig. 70). Early in the autumn the larva spins its strong silkencocoon, perhaps three inches in length, inside of which it changes to a chrysalis and re- \^Afr. W. Saunders.^ i INSECTS AND INSECTIVOROUS BIRDS. 71. Fiff. 79. mains during the winter [see Fig. 80), developing the moth the following season, about thebeginning of June.
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