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or sometimes in the immature fruit. The larva from the second brood 
makes the little burrows in the bark in which the insect passes the 
winter. The peach twig-borer feeds on all stone fruits. 
THE BAGWORM. 
( Thyridopteryx ephemerxformis Haw.—figs. 32 and 33.) 
The winter cases or bags of this insect, 15 to 2 inches long, are often 
seen hanging from the branches of shade trees, particularly arbor- 
Fig. 32.— Thyridopterya-ephemerxeformis. Cases; d, one cut open. (Howard.) 
vite, locust, and basswood, but are not so common on fruit trees. 
The adult insect is a moth; the female wingiess; the male with four 
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FIG. 33.—Thyridopteryx ephemerxformis: a, larya; b, head of same; c, male pupa; d, female pupa, 
e, adult female; f, adult male—all enlarged. (Howard.) 
transparent wings and a black body. The female never leaves her 
case alive, but in the fall deposits her eggs therein, drops out and dies, 
