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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. EJenden. 



yUi. 4!^. — MELANIC MALE AND FEMALE ^rOTTLEIt UMBEIl MoTLL 



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

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

 when it appears in numbers it may d<> more harm than the Winter 

 Motli. 



LiFE-HlSTOKV AND HaBITS. 



The male motli varies from a little under to a little over 1^ 



inch in wing ex[ianse. Tlie 

 front wings are normally a pale 

 (lull yelhiwish, mottled with 

 yellowish - brown and dusted 

 with lirown ; there are two more 

 or less prominent dark lines, the 

 first bent in an angle, the second 

 bent in three angles and often 

 followed liy 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 i[uite wingless and plump, much larger than the 



female Winter ]\loth, of various shades of yellowish-grey, and is nmch 



siieckled with dark bro\vn or black. IMiss Ormerod (1) describes 



|.l, r. IX Jtiutnlil. 



r>0.— LAin'.E uF :\iLtTTLEi' rjiREi; moth. 



