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Scopelosoma Morrisoni.
Eggs laid on bits of oak bark and tango
Depot/22 and subsequent days. Eggs also on
Strawberry and Shin plants. Flattened
infinitely with a circular superior depression
from which radiate beaded ridge. Large
transversal diameter about 6mm. Color
strans color changing to reddish and black
as larva develops.
Eggs Hatched May 4 et sq.
Young Larva. Liquid yellowish-green with
superior and anterior blackish tinge
Head large - jet black. Prolegs and in some
specimens, gut: black. A frontal
black shield on seg. I. Spine half together
like a tortrix. After feeding, color light
green with a few blackish marks.
A few colorless hairs. L. 1.5 mm.
When mature indication of a dorsal
subdorsal and calveer streaks. Color
light-green darker superiorly; head small
makes itself a case either within bud or
between the ribs of the leaves like a
tortrix. Sticky Land to handle. Turns
brownish yellow before changing skin
Raspberry cherry & gooseberry.