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ling Aloths, you send them to some good entomologist. They will settle 

 it for you. I have never caught a Plum Curculio. I have never 

 seen anyone who has. You may catch something that you think 

 is Curculio, but it may not be. You would be surprised if you 

 could see the kinds that I have sent to me as Plum Curculio. You 

 cannot catch them with the trap lantern. The Apple Borer — flat 

 and round-headed — I have never caught one of them in a trap lan- 

 tern. The Tip Borer — I have never caught one of fhem in the trap 

 lantern. Now^ and then one may possibly fall in. The Peach Borer 

 — No one can catch a single one of these moths in the trap lantern. Fall 

 Worm — I cannot catch any of those. Corn Worm — Catch plenty of them. 

 Army Worm — You can catch some of these. The Giant Worm — I do not 

 know what it is. Tomato Worm — If you mean a Boll Worm, you can. 

 No Raspberry Slug can be caught in the trap. The Leaf Roller — You 

 can't catch that. Canker ^^'^orm — Now how in the world are you going 

 to catch the canker worm when the female has no wings? You can't 

 get them in your trap. Canker Worm is out of the question. Further 

 more the Canker Worm Aloth does not come out until fall, and keeps 

 coming out all winter. Cabbage Worm — You cannot catch the white 

 butterfly which is the adult of the Cabbage Worms, and they are the 

 ones that do about 99 per cent, of the damage. 



There are some insects that do not fly at all by night, and yet will 

 get up and fly to a light, and, of course, you might catch some of them. 



Now in regard to the Stinging Fly — There is a puzzling question. 

 Some little insect is stinging the skin of the apples and is doing a vast 

 amount of harm. It has spoiled a large per cent, of what would have 

 been first-class apples. I do not know the little insect that is doing that 

 work. I wish I did. Now while we do not know what insect is doing 

 this, we do know some that are not doing it. It may be you can catch 

 these insects in your traps, but whether 3-ou do or not, test it for your- 

 selves. But you will never get rid of them in that way. 



I set out a trap lantern last night and I was really surprised to get 

 as many insects as I did on account of the wind and rain that stormy 

 night. The orchard was not sprayed, and I got a good many things, 

 among them a larva that dropped from the tree. I do not know whether 

 there were any Codling Moth in the orchard or not, but I caught none. 

 I have four Ichneumon Flies, all males. This insect is a beneficial one, I 

 mean by that, that it destroys injurious ones. Beneficial insects are either 

 parasitic or predaceous. I have several Crane Flies, six of them. They 

 look something like an enormous mosquito, but are not injurious. Then 

 three June Bugs or Alay Beetles, 27 Cock Roaches, and one House Fly 

 which flies by day. Two Clover Hay Moths which are injurious. Two 



