274 AMERICAN HOME GARDEN. 



hair pencils, the head and two spots on the back being coral 

 red. 



The small round white eggs of this species may be found 

 rolled up in a dead leaf, and hanging upon the ends of the 

 shoots through the winter. They hatch early in May, spin 

 mostly in the latter half of July ; in about two weeks the moth 

 appears, deposits her eggs in a few days, and dies. It is not 

 a numerous kind, but is found upon the rose, the wistaria, &c., 

 eating notches into the edges of the leaves. 



Remedy : gather and destroy the eggs in March or April, 

 and catch and crush the worms. 



PALMER WORM AND PARENT MOTH. 

 Fig. 134 





a. Larva. 6. Chcetocliilus Pometellus. 



The moth about three fourths of an inch across when spread. 

 It is generally of an ash-gray color, sprinkled more or less 

 with black, but varying very much in different seasons. 



The worm is described by Fitch as of a pale yellowish green, 

 with a dusky or black stripe along each side of the back ; and 

 two other lines, the one being whitish, and the other dusky, 

 with a shining yellow head like beeswax. 



They travel and feed scatteringly upon the tree, and drop 

 and hang by their spun threads when it is jarred. 



When in force, the palmer worm is much more destructive 

 than the nest or net worms, and in some sections and seasons 

 becomes a scourge. It feeds in June. The moths come out 

 about the second week in July. 



Remedy : drenching with water, or with whale-oil soap wash ; 

 also evening fires in the orchard in moth-time. 



Many of them are destroyed by a small footless parasitic 

 grub. 



