Lanterna Rally

Author: L. O. Howard

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-12-21

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13: 9781334724466

Excerpt from Three Insect Enemies of Shade Trees The larva is elongate, reaching when full grown (fig. 3, e) half an inch in length. When first hatched it is nearly black; as it increases in size it becomes, with each shedding of the skin, more distinctly marked with yellow, and when mature the yellow predominates, occurring as a broad dorsal stripe and two lateral stripes. The difference between the early work of the beetles and the later work of the larvae is recognized at a glance. The beetles eat entirely through the leaves and make complete, irregular holes, while the larvae simply eat the parenchyma from below, skeletonizing the leaf. The time occupied in egg laying is long, and it thus happens that at the time when full-grown larvae, and even pupae, are to be found there are also upon the leaves freshly laid eggs. In Washington there are invariably two generations annually, the beetles developed from the eggs laid by the overwintered beetles them selves laying their eggs in July. The adults issuing from these eggs make their appearance in August. Farther north, at New Brunswick, N. J and in the Connecticut cities, it may be said that there is nor mally a complete first generation and an incomplete second generation. 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.