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STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, 



"I send yon by mail a box of climbin.c: cntworras that liavo bppn damaging my 

 orcliard. They are still at work, bnt the foliage is so large and tongh now tliat they 

 do bnt little damage. They like the tender buds and shoots, but will eat anything 

 If they can not get the buds. They are also at work at my grape vines. We have 

 killed as many as 1,500 on some trees, not all in one night, bnt I did kill on a tree 

 the other night 412, and the next night 114, and the next night 141 on this same tree, 

 at one time, where I had been hunting them for tAvo weeks before. I did not have 

 time to count them very often, as I have between four and five thousand trees. 

 They have ruined a half or tAVo thirds of my crop. They go straight to the top of 

 a tree and leave the lower limbs. The tops of some of my trees look as though they 

 were dead, while the bottom limbs are white and full of blossoms." 



This statement is a very moderate one, for the next season Mr. Rood and myself 

 found them equally abundant in a portion of his orchard. On trees in a neigh- 

 boring apple orchard, where the climbing cutworms had not been killed the year 

 previous, we repeatedly coimted from 500 to 800 cutworms on the trunk of a single 

 tree by ten o'clock at night. These trees were probably twelve years old and 

 about eight or ten inches in diametei*. They were in timothy sod. Mr. Rood's 

 orchard had been in clover sod for two years preceding, and much of it had died 

 out the fall before the cutworms were the worst. 



Fig 2.— The white catworm, Carneades scandens: a, moth natnral size; 6, moth twice natnral size; 

 c, catworm, twice natnral size *(after SliDgerland). 



