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INSECTS INFESTING THE GOOSEBERRY. 



The female deposits her eggs (Fig. 213) in acontinuous slit 

 in a twig of a tree or shrub, placing them upon one side, end 

 to end. The young leaf-hopper is of the same general form 

 as the adult, but is destitute of wings. It is covered with a 

 cottony matter which envelopes the entire body, excepting the 

 head. 



T have found these insects on rhubarb in Afay. 



Remedies. — Use No. 28, No. 5 or Xo. 7. 



CHAPTER CXLI. 



The Gooseberry Fruit-worm. (Cal.) 



(Pempelid (iro!<snl (trier. — Packard. ) 



Order, LEriDoPTERA ; Family, Pvhalid.e. 



[Eating out the interior of currants and gooseberries; a 

 pale green worm.] 



Fig.214.—(;ooseberry Fruit- Fig. 214. 



worms — color, green. ^^ 



The caterpillar (Fig. 214) -^^^^z^" 

 after eating out the interior of ^ 



one berry will fasten a neigh- 

 boring one to it with silken 

 threads, and in this way whole 

 bunches of currants or goose- 

 berries are sometimes webbed 

 together, and will have nothing left of them excc])t the empty 

 hulls, .\fter reaching its full growth this worm deserts the 

 plants and enters the earth, where it forms a small cell in 

 which to undergo its transformations. Only one brood is pro- 

 duced in a season, and these pass the Winter in the pupa state. 



^. ^,^ Fig. 215. — Gooseberrv Fruit-worm 



Fi^. 215. 



t , ^roth and Cocoon ; at the left the co- 



^Mn^A(^^n^ coon — color, grayish-brown : at the right 

 ^j^^^^^Sy the moth — color, gray. 

 ^^t^^^ The fore-wings t>f the i)erfect moth 



(Fig. 215) exi)and nearly an inch; are 

 of a pale gray color, and marked with transverse white and 



