INSECTS INFESTING THE APPLE TREE. 



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Fiff. 61. 



Fig. 61. — Female Tussock 

 Moth — color, gray. 



Fig. 62. — Eggs of Tussock 

 Moth on the cocoon — color, 

 eggs white, cocoon pale yellow. 



Remedy — Use No. 30. 



Fig. 62 



CHAPTER XXXVIII. 



The Yellow-neeked Caterpillar. 



( Datana udnistra — Drury ) . 



Synonym. — Pygsera ministra. 



Order, Lepidoptera ; Family, Bombycid.^. 



[Feeding in communities upon the leaves of the apple, wal- 

 nut, etc., a black or reddish brown caterpillar, which is usually 

 marked with tive yellow lines on each side of the body.] 



Fig. 63. 



Fig. 63. — Yellow-necked Caterpillar, Moth, and Eggs ; «, the 

 caterpillar — colors, black and Avhite ; 6, the moth — colors, 

 brown and yellowish ; c, the eggs — color, white ; d, an egg mag- 

 nified. 



These caterpillars usually live in connnunities, and when at 

 rest have a habit of holding both extremeties of the body 

 upwards. (See a. Fig. 63). They difier widely in their color- 

 ings, according to the kind of tree they infest. Those which feed 



