CONSPICUOUS 
time that the young are hatching. 
date for the latter must be deter 
by close watching. 
352. — Oys.er-shell Seale. 
larged. Original. 
Fig. 
The Scurfy Scale 
(Chionaspis furfura Fitch) 
The scurfy scale is found principally 
on apple, but occasionally on 
peach, cherry, currant, and gooseberry. 
The seale of the female is small, flat, 
With these 
whitish, and broadly oval. 
Greatly 
Fic. 354. — Scurfy Scale. 
enlarged. Original. 
SCALES 
Greatly en- 
ON THE BARK 259 
The 
mined 
Q 
Fic. 3 
The larger 
the smaller 
Slightly enlarged. 
inal. 
3 Scale. 
53. — Seurfy 
are females; 
are males. 
Orig- 
pear, 
will be found the scales of the 
male, which are smaller, narrow, 
and longitudinally ridged. 
There is one generation annually. 
Eggs are laid in the fall, beneath 
the scale of the female, and from 
these hatch the minute young, in 
Only the male 
is 
the spring. 
winged. 
