.i';o Ilil'IDOI'IKRA. 



yDUiiL' shoots and fee<liug between them. ))ut in th.' apple 

 more partictiharly attackini,^ the blossom. 



I'rr.i short and i-allii-r thick : \\\i\\\ red-brown; creinaster 

 furnished with a lalid h(j(jk. In a silken cocoon in the 

 earth. 



The moth is one of oui- most abundant species in woods, 

 and in many districts almost as jjlentifiil in orciianis. also 

 occurring in hedi^es .'ind on timber trees everywhere. It 

 hides durinL'' the day in anv hollow or corner of a wall, tree- 

 trunk, fence, or other shelter, close to. or on, the irround and 

 esi)i-cially aniony dead leaves, but at dusk crawls uji. and 

 may then In- found everywhere, sitting;- lui trees, bnslu'S. and 

 hedges, tlie male with its win<jrs raised and jiressed toijether 

 over its back, tlie female looking,' most insit,niificant and 

 iucon.spicuoiis, in similai- places, it is veiy curious to see, 

 if a collector j^oes with liuhted lantern into an oak wood at 

 tiark, tiiese sluggish weak-lookinj; moths, often paired, by 

 scores on every tree-trunk, very little disturbed by the light, 

 quite indifferent to cold, but avoiding I'ain and wind by sit- 

 tin" on the sheltereil side of the tree, and allowin<r tliemselves 

 to l)e taken into the hand or otherwise disturbed with hardly 

 more of a protest than a l.i/.y Ihitter down. Its power of 

 endurance of severe cold is somewhat remarkable. I am 

 not prepared to admit that it will cineige fi'om j)npa during 

 severe frost, but certainly it passes throuLih such weather 

 after emergence with impunity, and although it only comes 

 out of its lading places and flies a little rola iitfirili/ in milder 

 weather there is distinct evidence that if di.sturbed it is by 

 no means dormant, but will even lly in its lazy way and 

 settle upon the ■•<niiir before seeking another shelter. On the 

 first night of a thaw every specimen which has ])assed througli 

 the frost will lie on the aleit. the numbers augmented by 

 many more which have been w;uting iii pii]);i f(U' tin- signrd 

 to emerge. 



fn oi'chards this species is sci destructive in the larva state 



