New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-07-17
THE cAYKER-woRM MOTH.

To ne ESiD, If The NJ y Trforss
SIR: In accordance with the suggestion Of your
correspondent without snsture In your issue Of to
spent an hour morning renvsstga the habit
Meth and particularly Of the Seus IL respect
to the row. NJ ~, ht. fkE43
Like most insects Of the family Of The Geomstrids 70 vhs
they belong they and looss In structure and
Hht Is bssltstine and imperfect IN them all ceru. how
ever difference between males and females Bdh sexsy
with the sane vsrists and Irregular A your
correspondent say, when detached from the limbs
they do speedily 70 the ground but antt-r In the
ard after few moments Of 'sors frequently mae and axsn1
again. -
In four instances wei. developed females with the sSdoms4
largely dended with tes. few from sy hnndsed tss
and made good their In branches twenty feet bg
Az for their ring TN tn. have deposited their
must mistake particularly .ied large snd hes.y fsusl
and instances they few IN the hight mesopeJ thcus
they hsve generally difficulty 10 getting spon the Wing
Indeed suspect hst after the eggs deposited the powef
fight greatly reduced The of deposting the
very e1ban,s one invariably dies sher
T. completed The walks OF parks red wfth
dead and dying moths which in providing for another
ton yea, have accomplished the end of their exieacs and
their o. the world found todsy that femaes with
the abdomen contracted sud sohs INDIGESTION thst the earl
had Al. been sdwes feeble and inactive and dies ande
ID. little handling which necessary TO d-srnins wheth
there any eggs in them, while usually they no. very
sasly killed.. ft
II they have no. yet found their wsy To Greenwood and
remote po,op. Brooklyn may be either the
wbh they fee do abound in those nsixhbohoods or
because In the outskirts Of the city the birds have hee
to them though their of extending their does
great r
It would be worth WHILE however before determining this
osrey essnipe BY hight well . BY day. Msny iusss
which ilursish end Inactive daring the day fy actively
enough during The night have noticed the boues Of
tres toward evening alive with these niers towering among
the uppernost branches and have observed Of them flying
freely through the evening have ho~syeE observed
in either Of th--~ instances he pas active,
though have O reason douht II.
laid
not hscb but that only those deposited in cold weather
early Spring produce worms" 10 LITTLE amusing. the
laid row hsch what suppose that they laid
forl Ard the Insects die er laying there len
lay cold wes'her specimen Of this aoth 40. to b
found In Winter The laid this constitute The
Only provision for the uceeedts and deusl cleaning
after the present month inevitably protect
the Indeed II the moths did not n.y. the
thorough .csrg tree after the have been dspos3
woui5 protect for many since the insect incsrsbb
ndina ia rapidly far by fight Il s ina
csrsbe OF doing by dig Til Hust be ons grounds
snd would evidently be impossible for re.t s.stion 70
place in this way along the aud vsks Of the
ely
Washing the body of with bitter Il ida II woua
sec, the In the least any than waning thu
nest Of vi bitter waier,he ruin weuid wssh a.
Ard done sugv,ed sin the srrat" wh-n the esc arc
harch cond intsrose obstacle TO TIE sseen Of
the They h.tchst conporsososy with thu er-
rsnsion the tender esves and leaf and worn grow ad
n.,p,.,oe.,lay your B.NM
the foregoing remarks wers wrtit'n have scout
the hour Ito IN watching the evening movements
OF thss }. stls
srd sry S-o,.i. actively hyipx and'soue rising eondrr
.., with others and n.a Most :h..
lowering shins the rass mps OF the paads
,,o.uJ " ere and when hersed they dew vel Tbsy
40 no, m fy lors at time. The male.
hover continuously such Of the branches visible
from the ground the darkness OF thos found the
Of the most females; tAose esp,aIed Hyns Of
either The perhaps the active; and pro-
sumo be true that those which hover about the upper
branrkel generally Of tns B.NM
Nex- Iork "Wednesday, July II. lsSo.