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In the Northeast, a single species of parasitic fly has caused declines in the populations of two native silk moth species.
Silk moth cocoons are made of a layer of silk that the caterpillar exudes from glands in its mouth.
The tiny lime-speck pug moth is common and widespread over much of Britain.
For something in bloom, choose a camellia, Christmas cactus, cymbidium, kalanchoe, or moth orchid.
Gypsy moth egg hatch occurs at about the time of budburst of red and black oaks.
Included among the invertebrates are moth flies, wood gnats, midges, punkies, mosquitoes, marsh beetles, and beelike or wasplike syrphid flies.
Upon thawing, the head and left metathoracic femur of each moth were removed and dried.
A tiger moth swooped down and brushed Anna with its dusty wings before gliding off into the distance.
Certain orchids, such as moth and slipper orchids, also fall into this category.
Searching the Siberian hinterlands for a tiger moth that is surely extinct by now is his idea of fun.
The mahogany-coloured larvae of the goat moth attack deciduous trees and exude a strong, goatlike odour.
After some clicking around, I think that the goat moth may be close to that one I saw on my garage.
It is a ghost moth and said to be common, though it is some years since I have seen one here.
The damsel bug, preys on soft-bodied insects such as aphids, jassids, caterpillars and moth and butterfly eggs.
Even earwigs can be useful because they eat aphids, codling moth eggs and the red spider mite.
A pupa of the moth is discovered in a murder victim's throat, and the film posters featured a full-grown specimen superimposed on Foster's face.
Apple scab over-winters on fallen leaves, codling moth caterpillars live in fallen apples and pear midge grubs live in fallen fruitlets.
The moth is dull gray with gray wings with a white blotch near the tip of the forewings.
The apple small ermine moth causes more or less serious defoliation at the tips of branches of apple trees.
When the same bacteria are injected into the common flour moth Ephestia kuehniella, however, they simply kill the males.
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It is closely related to the clothes moth and, like the moth, bores in its larval stage, feeding on the mesophyl of the leaves.
Behold the array of birds that devour the larvae of the codling moth to an important extent.
Reports of injury by the walnut weevil, Conotrachelus juglandis, and also by codling moth larvae have been received.
Then I asked if it would be possible to capture a codling moth at this time of the year.
The myrica is very abundant, and a useful preventive against the moth if placed in wardrobes or drawers.
We have had complaints of severe injury to walnuts in California from the codling moth and walnut aphids.
The codling moth attacks the apple and often causes a loss of from twenty-five to seventy-five per cent of the crop.
Long ago when the little ones of the Io moth were small, they were, like most caterpillars, very ugly little things.
The cremaster is a characteristic structure in the pupa of a moth or butterfly.
The moth is out in July and in August, and may often be seen resting on the flowers of knapweed in the daytime.
The flour moth is said to have five successive generations in a twelvemonth.
The moth is out from June to August, and may be obtained at the flowers of marram grass as well as at sugar.
The moth flies in July and August, and is partial to sugar and to the flowers of heather and ragwort.
The moth pulls off this hair to cover its eggs, and the tweezers are used for that purpose.
About the last of June pupation takes place and in about ten days the moth emerges.
I have told you often how the palace in Florence is shabby, eaten up with moth and rust.
Throughout the winter a single chickadee will destroy great numbers of the eggs of the cankerworm moth and of the plant louse.
Have you ever watched a Cecropia moth when it crawls out of its dull gray prison of chrysalis?
Some years ago the gypsy moth and the browntail moth were introduced by accident into the New England states.
It seemed attracted by the acridity of the beautiful insect, as the moth is by the flame.
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