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THE APPLE-TREE TENT-CATERPILLAR. 



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Fig. 15. 



Large, white, silken web-like tents. Fig. 15, are noticed by the 

 roadsides, in the early summer, on wild cheiry trees, and also on 

 fruit trees in orchards, containing numerous caterpillars of a blackish 

 color with fine gray hairs scattered over the body. 



This well known pest has been very abundant throughout the state 

 for several years past, and the trees in many neglected orchards have 

 been greatly injured by it, some being entirely stripped of their 

 leaves. The trees in these orchards and the neglected ones by the 

 roadsides form excellent breeding places for this insect, and such as 

 are of little or no value should be destroyed. If this were well done, 

 and all fruit growers in any given region were to destroy all the tents 

 on their trees, even for a single season, the work of holding them in 

 check or destroying them in the following year would be compara- 

 tively light. 



The moths. Fig. 16, appear in great numbers in July, their wings 

 measuring, when expanded, from one and a quarter to one and a half 

 inches or more. They are of a reddish brown color, the fore-wings 



