FIELD BOOK OF INSECTS. 



Galleriinae 



The adult Bee-moth (Plate LXI) has pur- 

 plish-brown front wings and pale brown or 

 mellonella 



yellowish hind wings. The female probably 

 enters the bee-hives at night and lays her eggs while the 

 bees are asleep for, when awake, they actively and success- 

 fully resent her presence. The larvae feed by night on the 

 wax of the combs. They make silken galleries in which 

 they hide during the day. The tough cocoons are usually 

 placed against the side of the hive. The Bee-moth is 

 found almost everywhere that honey-bees are kept but its 

 original home, probably Asia, is unknown. 



Phycitinae 



For the most part, these are a silky gray. Nearly all the 

 larvae live in silken tubes, which may be in the stems of 

 plants, in seeds, in flower heads, or in crumpled leaves. 

 Lcztilia coccidivora feeds on the Tulip Soft Scale and the 

 Cottony Maple Scale. 



Mineola 



There are many Leaf-crumplers but this 



species is apt to be noticed on home grounds. 

 indigmella 



It has not been troublesome since spraying 



for the Codling Moth became general. The larvae feed 

 on apple, plum, and cherry. In winter we can find with- 

 ered crumpled leaves fastened to twigs. If these leaves 

 conceal a larva encased in a tube of silk and frass, looking 

 like a small, much-twisted horn, we probably have this 

 species. In the spring, after banquets on young leaves, 

 the larva pupates in its case and the adults, with silver- 

 marked, pale brown, front wings, emerge about July. 



The larvae of Mineola vaccinii is the Cranberry Fruit- 

 worm. 



The Mediterranean Flour-moth was first 

 Ephestia noticed in America about 1889. It is now 



kuehniella ... ,. ., r, >,,- 



rather widely distributed in flour, feed, 

 and cereals. The cylindrical larva is the color of pink 

 flesh, with sparse, long hairs and a reddish-brown head. 

 Not only do the larvse destroy by eating, but they also 

 spin threads as they move about, so that the material in 



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