The Gypsy And Brown Tail Moths Vol 2 Classic Reprint

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Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333466480
Total Pages : 458 pages
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Download or read book Forestry Pamphlets, Maine, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint) written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-04 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Forestry Pamphlets, Maine, Vol. 2 The moths. The moths, expanding from one and one-fourth to one and three-fourths inches, are white except for the abdo men, which is tinged with brown and tipped with a tuft of brown hairs. This tuft is small and dark in the male, but the large golden-brown tuft in the female is conspicuous enough to be the most striking characteristic of the moth, and has won for this insect its descriptive name of brown-tail. These moths are on the wing in July, and unlike some closely related pests, the brown-tail females as well as the males are strong iers. They are active at night, and as lights have an attraction for them, they sometimes y a long way toward a lighted district. The eggs. The female usually selects a leaf near the tip of the branch on which to deposit from 150 to 300 eggs. Some of the brown hairs from the abdominal tuft adhere to the egg-mass and give it the appearance of a brown felt lump. The caterpillars in the fall. By the middle of August most of the eggs are hatched and the young caterpillars spin a slight web over the leaf near the egg cluster. From this protection they advance side by side, sometimes 200 tiny cater pillars feeding in an unbroken line, though they huddle together beneath the web when disturbed in any way. When they have eaten all but the skeleton of the first leaf, they draw another into the web and repeat the process at intervals during the late summer. They feed slowly, however, and spend so much time spinning their web that they do comparatively little damage to the trees in the fall, and they are still very small, (about one fourth of an inch in length, ) when cold weather comes on. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."