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brown head; soiik* arc (hirkcr in color, witli nearly black heads 

 and thoracic shields. Two lab'ral and two dorsal whitish stripes 

 give the dorsum the; 

 appearance of being 

 traversed by two 

 broad, dark stripes 

 and a similar nar- 

 rower mesal stripe 

 of the general body 

 color (Fig. 5()). 

 The active little 

 palmer- worms 

 move with a wrig- 

 gling motion when ,, re, rr^u ^ ■ ■, * n 



^ ^ Fig. 56. — The palmer-wonu m its scanty silken 



touched, and work net(xo) 



on the foliage and 



young fruits for 3 or 4 weeks in June. They skeletonize the 



foliage and spin down when disturbed, but are not loopers or 



measuring-worms, and although only a})out half as large as 



Fig. 57. — Youhk apples eaten into l)y paliner-wornvs. Note the caterpillars 

 in the first and third apples from the right. 



canker-worms, may l)e more destructive, as they frequently eat 

 large, deep holes into the sides of the young fruits (Fig. 57). 

 They feed openly on the leaves, sometimes fastening 2 or 3 leaves 



