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Insect Pests. 



Growers' Association in 1907, but no locality was mentioned. Of 

 wall fruit, both peach and apricot are attacked occasionally ; various 



[F. Edenden. 

 Via. 49. — JIELANIC MALE AND FEMALE MOTTLED UMBER MOTH. 



forest trees, such as oak, beech, lime, elm, birch and in hedgerows, 

 the whitethorn, blackthorn and privet. Owing to its larger size, 

 when it appears in numbers it may do more harm tban the Winter 

 Moth. 



LiFE-HlSTOKY AND HaBITS. 



The male moth varies from a little under to a little over Ij 



inch in wing expanse. The 

 front wings are normally a pale 

 dull yellowish, mottled with 

 yellowish - brown and dusted 

 Avith brown ; there are two more 

 or less prominent dark lines, the 

 first bent in an angle, the second 

 bent in three angles and often 

 followed l)y a darker hue, and 

 there is a central dark spot on 

 each wing; the hind wings are 

 of a more uniform yellowish-grey, 

 with minute darker specks and 

 a dark spot on each. 



The colour is, however, very 



variable, some specimens being 



dark rusty-brown all over, owing 



to the thick dusting of dark 



colour, such as is seen in 



Fig. 49. 



The female is quite wingless and plump, much larger than the 



female Winter Moth, of various shades of yellowish-grey, and is much 



speckled with dark brown or black. Miss Ormerod (1) describes 



[A. V. D. Rintoid. 

 FIG. 50.— LARA'.*: OF MOTTLED UMBER MOTH. 



