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" ... composed of a slight web of silk intermingled with a few hairs. They remain in the cocoons in the chrysalis state through the winter, and are transformed to moths in the months of June and July. These moths are white, and without spots; the fore thighs... "
Report of the United States Entomological Commission for the Years ... - Page 270
by United States Entomological Commission - 1890
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Letters and Papers on Agriculture, Planting, &c., Selected from ..., Volume 2

1802 - 420 pages
...fooner grow out of the way of cattle, who very often do them great injury. The fize I choofe to plant is from one inch and a quarter to one inch and a half in diameter at the grafting place ; that is about five feet fix inches from the ground. The method...
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Narrative of an Expedition to the Sources of St. Peter's River, Lake ...

1824 - 496 pages
...middle not attaining the inner margin and near the tip larger spots, white. Length to tip of the wings from one inch and a quarter to one inch and a half. A fine insect, which appears to inhabit almost every part of the United States, though I have not met...
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Narrative of an expedition to the source of St. Peter's river ..., Volume 2

William Hypolitus Keating - 1824 - 492 pages
...middle not attaining the inner margin and near the tip larger spots, white. Length to tip of the wings from one inch and a quarter to one inch and a half. A fine insect, which appears to inhabit almost every part of the United States, though I have not met...
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A Report on the Insects of Massachusetts, Injurious to Vegetation

Thaddeus William Harris, Massachusetts. Zoological and Botanical Survey - 1841 - 484 pages
...moths are white, and without spots ; the forethighs are tawny-yellow, and the feet blackish. Their wings expand from one inch and a quarter to one inch and three eighths. Their antennae and feelers do not differ essentially from those of the majority of the...
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The Farmer's Encyclopædia, and Dictionary of Rural Affairs ..., Volume 1

Cuthbert William Johnson - 1844 - 1210 pages
...moths are white, and without spots ; the forethighs are tawny-yellow, and the feet blackish. Their wings expand from one inch and a quarter to one inch and three-eighths. "During the months of July and August, there may be found on apple trees and rosebushes,...
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The Trees of America: Native and Foreign, Pictorially and Botanically ...

Daniel Jay Browne - 1846 - 542 pages
...base of the fore-wings, which, besides are crossed by two oblique, straight, dirty-white lines. They expand from one inch and a quarter, to one inch and a half, or a little more, and appear in Massachusetts, in great numbers, in July, flying about, and often entering...
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Report of the Secretary of Agriculture ...

United States. Department of Agriculture - 1862 - 698 pages
...illustration of this species, and Fig. 13 is the nest and eggs. When full grown this insect attains from one inch and a quarter to one inch and a half in length ; the color ie a light bay brown or fawn color ; and it is •covered with very short hairs,...
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A Treatise on Some of the Insects of New England which are Injurious to ...

Thaddeus William Harris - 1852 - 536 pages
...moths are white, and without spots; the fore thighs are tawny yellow, and the feet blackish. Their wings expand from one inch and a quarter to one inch and three eighths. Their antennae and feelers do not differ essentially from those of the majority of the...
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The Pinetum: Being a Synopsis of All the Coniferous Plants at Present Known ...

George Gordon, Robert Glendinning - 1858 - 384 pages
...solitary ; female flowers, in twos or threes on short peduncles, and axillary. Fruit, elliptic, and from one inch and a quarter to one inch and a half long, with a thin fleshy or leathery green covering, quite smooth when ripe outside, and very similar...
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A Treatise on Some of the Insects Injurious to Vegetation

Thaddeus William Harris - 1862 - 682 pages
...spot on the inner hind angle ; those of the female are sometimes * Insects of Georgia, p. 171, pl. 86. entirely dusky ; the body is brownish, and there are...inch and a quarter to one inch and a half, or nearly. Our fruit-trees seem to be peculiarly subject to the ravages of insects, probably because the native...
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