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recommend adhesive bands, because the latter have a very Hmited 

 range of usefuhiess. 



Cigar case bearer (Coleophora fictchcrclla Fern.). 

 This insect was responsible last spring" for very severe injuries to a 

 number of orchards at South Byron and vicinity. An examination 

 of conditions early in June showed that a considerable proportion 

 of the foliage was badly damaged and would drop within a few 

 weeks. The operations of this insect were so severe in some places 

 as to give the trees a brownish appearance when viewed from a 

 distance. 





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Fig. 13 Work of cigar case bearer, a, showing the spotted character of earlier work; 

 b, leaf with the parenchyma entirely destroyed ; c, a portion more enlarged. (Original) 



An examination in the fall showed that this species was rather 

 abundant at Albion and promises to cause considerable injury an- 

 other spring unless controlled by timely spraying. The cigar case 

 bearer was by far the more abundant though a few specimens of 

 the pistol case bearer, Coleophora malivorella Riley, 

 were also present in the orchard. Both of these insects are amen- 

 able to the same treatment, namely, thorough spraying with an 

 arsenical poison at the time the young leaves appear in the spring. 

 It is important that the ajiplication be made early, otherwise it may 

 be difficult to destroy the voracious caterpillars before the buds have 

 been seriously injured. 



