76 WOOLY BEARS. 
The moth flies during the day in June. It is by no means 
very uncommon, and delights to fly about the edges of 
forests, or wherever the ground is overgrown with black- 
berries and similar plants. We have at least two species of 
this interesting moth; the Lecontei var militaris Harr., hav- 
ing the fore-wings ornamented with broad black markings, 
and the fulvicosta Clem., where the cream-colored fore-wings 
Fig. 73.—Callimorpha fulvicosta Clem.; a, caterpillar; b, moth; cand d, segments 
of body of larva. Atter Riley. 
possess a fulvous border. Yellow markings are also found 
on the head, collar, and base and tip of the abdomen. Fig. 
73 shows the larva and adult; Fig. 74, Plate XII, shows the 
same insect and also two forms of C. contigua Walk. 
These caterpiliars have been known to cause consider- 
able damage to the voung foliage of the peach tree-and to 
the young leaves of the blackberries. They are easily shaken 
into sheets, and even into inverted umbrellas, because they 
drop to the ground as soon as the plants upon which they 
are feeding are jarred. In extreme cases the arsenical pois- 
ons should be used. 
A number of other Arctiids or ‘‘Wooly Bears” are injur- 
ious to cultivated fruit trees and our smaller fruits. Gener- 
ally, however, their caterpillars consume all kinds of low- 
growing plants and only exceptionally prove destructive to 
taller shrubs and trees. 
