THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. lO'J 



A NEW ORCHARD PEST — THE FRINGED-WING APPLE- 

 bud inioth (nothris? maligemwella, n. sp.). 

 by j. m. stedman, professor of entomology, university of missouri. 



General Remarks. 



While experimenting two years ago with the Leaf Grumpier and the 

 Leaf Folder, a gentleman asked me to visit his apple orchard, some two 

 miles distant, and to observe the destructive work of what he supposed 

 was the Leaf Folder. The orchard had been in bearing for several years 

 and covered sixty acres. The apple trees had at that time just shed their 

 blooms (petals) and the adjacent orchards appeared green, while the 

 infested one was very conspicuous, appearing as if a fire had swept 

 through it. 



On entering the orchard it was seen at a glance the injury was not 

 caused by the Leaf Folder, but by a bud moth, which I at once concluded 

 must be the Eastern Bud Moih. ( Tmetocera ocellajia). However, as soon 

 as I saw the larvae that were doing the work, I observed that we had to 

 deal with an entirely different species of insect, one which I had not 

 observed or read of, and yet one that was doing a vast amount of damage, 

 for the entire orchard was not only losing its prospective heavy crop of 

 fruit, but also a large per cent, of the developing leaves and shoots, and 

 as a consequence, the prospects for next year's fruit buds. 



the DISTRIBUTION OF THIS INSECT. 



From inquiry, it seems this -pest first made its appearance in one 

 corner of the apple orchard two years previously, and since that time had 

 multiplied to such an extent as to not only cover this orchard, but had 

 spread into the edge of two adjacent apple orchards, but not into an 

 adjacent pear orchard. The moth had its own way in this orchard, 

 however, since the party owning it did not up to that time believe in 

 spraying, and this enabled nature to take her course ; while in most 

 commercial orchards the pest might not have multiplied so rapidly owing 

 to the sprayings applied for other insects. 



Thus far we have seen this moth only in the apple orchards in 

 Jackson County, although several fruit-growers have lately reported its 

 presence in their apple orchards in other western counties of this State, 

 but they have not as yet sent specimens for identification.* 



*Since the above was written I have been reliably informed that this insect has 

 been doing considerable damage in Kansas for the past three years. 



