The Bud Moth. 



Tmetocera ocellana. 



This bad moth has come to be recognized by many of the most 

 extensive apple growers of western New York as the most injuri- 

 ous and hardest to light of any insect now present in their 

 orchards. It works in the opening leaf (Fig. 32) and flower buds 



32— Work of the bud moth in opening leaf buds. 



(see frontispiece), and often nearly the whole crop on many trees is 

 destroyed while yet in the bud. It is also especially destructive 

 when it attacks recently budded or grafted trees and nursery 

 stock. Besides apple, it also feeds upon pear, plum, cherry, quince 

 and peach trees and blackberry buds. 



Thus, frnit growers have to fear in the bud moth a pest which is 

 capable of literally "nipping in the bud" a prospective crop of 

 fruit, a graft, or a budded stock. 



