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with small specks of the same. It is orange colored or yellow 

 about the head and throat. 



Fig. 132. 



a. Larva. 



b. Euraetopona ministra, or Handmaid 

 moth. 



The net worm, or yellow-necked apple-tree worm somewhat 

 resembles the nest worm, but comes later in the season, and, 

 instead of spinning a compact nest, weaves a net over the limb 

 on which it is feeding, and spreads it as its range enlarges, 

 eating chiefly the tissue of the leaf in preference to its veins. 



The eggs are deposited in clusters upon the back of the leaf, 

 near the end of the shoot, and number usually from seventy to 

 a hundred, which are hatched from the middle of July to the 

 middle of August. 



They are generally by no means so numerous as the nest 

 worm, but more injurious in proportion to their numbers. 



Remedy : watch for their first weaving, and immediately 

 crush them ; or cut off the limb and burn it. 



NOTCH WORM AND PARENT MOTHS. > 



Fig. 133. 



a. Larva. 6. Orgyia Leucostigma (Male). c. Orgyia Leucostigma (Female). 



Moth of a dingy brown color, the female being wingless. 

 The notch worm is a pretty, slender, sixteen-footed worm, 

 about an inch long, with pale yellow hairs and tufts, and black 



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