Shade Trees, Indigenous Shrubs and VinesTranscript Company, 1877 - 55 pages |
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Shade Trees, Indigenous Shrubs And Vines, And Insects That Infest Them J. T. Stewart,Emma a. Smith No preview available - 2019 |
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American Linn appearance autumn bark beauty become beetle birds Black Cherry bluff body BOMBYCIDE borers branches brood caterpillars CERAMBYCIDE chrysalis Clisiocampa clusters cocoon COLEOPTERA color covering cultivated cymes Deciduous Deciduous Trees destroying early spring elegant tree evergreens feet high female flourish foliage forest trees fruit fully grown gall grass plats ground grows growth habits Hackberry handsome tree hardy Harris hatched HEMIPTERA hole inch in length indigenous infested injurious insect inside inside planting June larva larvæ leaf Lecanium acericola LEPIDOPTERA lice limbs Maple trees moist moth native numbers ornamental panicles Pemphigus pine Pine-Pinus pinnate pinnate leaves planting Poplar profusion Promethea pruning Psylla pupa pupæ racemes rapid grower rich Riley Robinia roots Sassafras seen shade trees shrub side sized tree slender small tree Soft Maple soil species street subsoil summer transplanting Tremex trunk vicinity vine Walnut white flowers wings winter wood worms Xyleutes yard young
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Page 33 - Antiopa butterfly live together in great numbers on the poplar, willow, and elm, on which the first broods may be found early in June. They are black, minutely dotted with white, with a row of eight dark brick-red spots on the top of the back. The head is black and rough with projecting points ; the spines, of which there are six or seven on each segment, except the first, are black, stiff, and branched, and the intermediate legs are reddish. When fully grown they measure an inch and three quarters...
Page 41 - The best application for the destruction of the lice is a wash made of two parts of soft soap and eight of water, with which is to be mixed lime enough to bring it to the consistence of thick white-wash. This is to be put upon the trunks and limbs of the trees with a brush, and as high as practicable, so as to cover the whole surface, and fill all the cracks in the bark. The proper time for washing over the trees is in the early part of June, when the insects are young and tender.
Page 49 - ... shelly, and there are a few short hairs arising from minute warts thinly scattered over the surface of the body. When fully grown, it measures two inches and a half, or more, in length, and is nearly as thick as the end of the little finger. These caterpillars bore the tree in various directions, but for the most part obliquely upwards and downwards through the solid wood, enlarging the holes as they increase in size, and continuing them through the bark to the outside of the trunk. Before transforming,...
Page 35 - These flies may frequently be seen thrusting their slender borers, measuring from three to four inches in length, into the trunks of trees inhabited by the grubs of the Tremex and by other wood-eating insects ; and, like the female Tremex, they sometimes become fastened to the trees, and die without being able to draw their borers out again.
Page 35 - Entomology." The male does not appear to have been described by any author; and, although agreeing, in some respects, with the two other species, represented by Mr. Say, is evidently distinct from both of them. He is extremely unlike the female, in color, form, and size, and is not furnished with the remarkable borer of the other sex. He is rust-colored, variegated with black. His antennae are rust-yellow or blackish. His wings are smoky, but clearer than those of the female. His hind body is somewhat...
Page 41 - ... trees with a brush, and as high as practicable, so as to cover the whole surface, and fill all the cracks in the bark. The proper time for washing over the trees is in the early part of June, when the insects are young and tender. These insects may also be killed by using in the same way a solution of two pounds of potash in seven quarts of water, or a pickle consisting of a quart of common salt in two gallons of water.
Page 49 - ... sometimes extending over entire branches with their leaves, may be seen on our native elms, and also on apple and other fruit trees, in the latter part of summer. The eggs, from which these caterpillars proceed, are laid by the parent moth in a cluster upon a leaf near the extremity of a branch ; they are hatched from the last of June till the middle of August, some broods being early and others late, and the young caterpillars immediately begin to provide a shelter for themselves, by covering...
Page 35 - ... body, when she plunges it, by repeated wriggling motions, through the bark into the wood. When the hole is made deep enough, she then drops an egg therein, conducting it to the place by means of the two furrowed pieces of the sheath. The borer often pierces the bark and wood to the depth of half an inch or more, and is sometimes driven in so tightly that the insect cannot draw it out again, but remains fastened to the tree till she dies. The eggs are oblong...
Page 53 - The eggs are laid singly in the side of a needle of the pine ; though sometimes an egg is inserted on each side of the leaf. Mr. Riley has described the habits of the White-pine saw-fly, of an inch in length when fully grown; darkest above, and with indistinct blackish spota upon the sides.
Page 41 - ... shell at its lower elevated part, and through this little fissure the perfect insect at length backs out. After the larger lice have become fixed and have thrown off their outer coats, they enter upon the pupa or chrysalis state, which continues for a longer or shorter period according to the species. But when they have become mature, they do not leave the skins or shells covering their bodies, which continue flexible for a time. These larger insects are the females, and are destined to remain...