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Grape vines are particularly subject to attack from these cutworms, as they 

 have such large, tender buds. Of the fruit trees, perhaps the peach is the most 

 likely to be attacked, as it is usually grown on sandy soil, but the apple, plum and 

 cherry suffer quite as much. The currant and berry bushes are also attacked, and 

 in fact there are very few trees and bushes wliich are not known as food plants 

 of the climbing cutworms. 



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Fig. 6. — The variegated cutworm Peridro saucia: a, an egg greatly enlarged; b. ciaster of eggs, 

 nataral size; c, moth, natural siz?; d, moth, twice natural size (after Siingerland). Side and back 

 views of the entworm, twice natural size (after Forbes). 



