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Mr. P'lint: You can put that Tree Tanglefoot on the trunks of 

 the trees and you can catch the canker worms tliat crawl up the trunk 

 but this insect flies up and lays its eggs on the leaves. It is practi- 

 cally useless for hand made moth. The eggs are laid up in the trees 

 hy a moth that flies. 



A Member: But when they come down you may get a few? 



Mr. Flint: You can get a few of them. 



Pres. Weber: The mischief is already done? 



Mr. Flint: The Tanglefoot will get your canker worm. It is 

 very effective for that insect but for these it is of little value. 



On the Ntit Weevil. 



A Member: Where does it hibernate? 



Mr. Flint: On trash and litter through wood lands around your 

 ])lantation. 



The Member: On the ground? 



Mr. Flint: In the surface of the ground. W^e have taken large 

 numbers of them — the lar2,est number we have ever taken was in a 

 rotting stick on the ground, where they had lain for two or three 



years. 



A Member : Have you ever seen the Codling Moth attacking 

 Japanese Walnut ? 



Mr. P'lint: Not on Japanese Walnut. We have bred Codling 

 Moth several times from the green shells of hickory nuts. 



A Member: I have found it on the heart nut; rather badly in- 

 jured, the crop on one tree. 



Mr. Flint: Of course you all know the Codling Moth is a pest 

 of the English Walnut in the west and' they have to spray or dust for 

 it out there just as we have to spray for it on apples. I don't believe 

 it will ever become very much of a pest of any of the nuts we grow 

 here. It doesn't like these things as well as it likes apples and jilums 

 and probably would not get very plentiful on the nuts. 



A INIember: Are there any birds that attack the hand made moth? 



Mr. Flint: I couldn't give you any reports of the birds feeding 

 on it. The caterpillars are eaten by the yellow-billed cuckoo. It 

 likes hairy caterpillars and it eats a great many of tliem just as it 

 eats a great many Gypsy moths. 



