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INSECTS. 



bud. In this way they make sad havoc, destroying the entire 

 crop of fruit and sadly mutHatiug the vines. 



These beetles deposit clusters of orange-colored eggs on the 

 under side of the vine leaves, from -which the larvae are hatched; 

 these are small, dark-brown worms, with black heads, which feed 

 usually on the upper side of the leaves, but are sometimes to be 

 found on the under side. In this stage they are very easUy 

 gathered and destroyed. They attaia their full size in fi?om 

 three to four weeks, when they crawl iuto the ground and pass 

 iato the chrysalis state, from which they emerge in due time, as 

 little, blue or green, jumpiug flea-beetles. 



In the beetle state it is dif&cult to catch them, they verify the 

 saying " that when you put your finger on them they are not 

 there." "We have no confidence in any dusting of them with 

 air-slaked hme or sprinkling of them with soap suds ; they are 

 not so easUy killed. "White heUibore sprinkled on the opening 

 buds may poison them. But the sure way of destroying them is 

 to make thorough search among the young leaves for the eggs 

 and the larvae, and carefully pick them off and crush them. 



The Green Grape Vine Sphinx. Ghaerocampa ■pampinor 

 trix. This insect belongs to the family of Hawkmoths, which 

 remain concealed during the day, but may often be seen of a 

 warm summer's evening hovering over the flowers in the garden, 

 much after the manner of a humming bird, and thrusting their 

 long proboscis into the nectaries of the flowers. 



In the moth state it is a very pretty insect. The upper side 



of the fore wings 

 is of a dark olive 

 ►green, banded 

 with greenish 

 grey, and the hind- 

 er wings are dull 

 i WS'\ red. Fig. 34 is a 



"^ * very good repre- 



sentation of this 

 moth. Fig. 35 



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Pig. 84. 



