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Identifier: annualreportoffr1897frui
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario
Subjects: Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario; Fruit-culture; Fruit-culture
Publisher: Ontario Dept. of Agriculture, (Warcick Bros.
Contributing Library: Brock University
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ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ONTARIO. Spilosoma Congrua, Walker. I took a female of this species at the Gomin on the 29th of June. It laid eggs on the 10th of July, and these hatched six days afterwards. The larva? fed on pig-weed, dandelion and plantain. I succeeded in bringing the whole batch to the pupal stage, and took full notes of all their changes. As soon as the appearance of the moths enables me to complete the life history of the species I will send the particulars to the Canadian Entomologist for publication. I may say that the larvae are very different in all their stages from those of U. textor, and seem to indicate that Congrua should come in the genus Arctia. • Unfortunate Selandria Larvae. On the 7th of July I found on a young ash at St. David's a number of milk-white larvae with black, shining heeds, and black feet (S. varda, Say ?) They were about three- fourths of an inch long. Next day they moulted, and, after the moult, seemed smaller than before. Their colour was changed to pale lead-colour above and a pale yellow be- neath. The head was dark brown above, the face yellow. The legs also were yellow. They fed no more, but beoame inert and dropped to the ground. The cause of all this became apparent when, on the 23rd of the month, there came from them a number of Tachina flies. Captures in August. On the 6th of August, passing through the Fort Woods at Levis, I found a bush of Spircea salicifolia Linn, in full bloom. It was thronged with insects. Without moving from my position I captured Sannina exitiosa, Say (Fig. 41), Conops sagittaria, Say, Anthrax fulviana, Say, Perilampus ceruleus, Say, Philanthus bilunatus, Cress, Eumenes
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Fig. 41. Female moth on left, male on right. Fig. 42. fraterna, Say, Goritesphaleratus, Say, Exetastes rvfo femoratus, Prov., etc., etc.—a great haul ! Moths of Gelechia gallai-diplopappi, Fyles, appeared from the 8th to the 15th. Catocala parta, Guen. (Fig. 42) was very abundant at the end of the month. Blisters on Poplar Leaves. On the 9 th of August I found blisters on poplar leaves. Each blister was about half an inch across. It contained a larva which changed to a chrysalis before I could describe it. The chrysalis was attenuated and about three-twentieths of an inch in length. On the 28th of the month it produced a lovely little moth. In length of body this was only one-eighth of an inch. Its wings expanded three-twentieths of an inch. The fore wings were golden brown, and ;had a set of creamy white patches bordered in- wardly with black, and running transversely from either side to the middle of the wing. The hind wings were narrow but deeply fringed. The palpi were white and feathery, the eyes black, the legs were white and had feathered tibiae. This I concluded was the Lithocolleiis populieila of Chambers.

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