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3. Beetle.s : 



a. Large brown beetle feeding at night on leaves. 



May-beetle (Lachnosterna fusca). Fig. 87. 



b. Small brown beetles, feeding at night. 



Leaf -beetles. 

 E. Attacking tlte Fruit : 



a. Boring tunnels through the frtdt — 



1. Tunnels mostly about the core, — brown excrement often visible at opening at blos- 



som end of apple : 



Codling Moth. (Carpocapsa pomonella). 



2. Tunnels irregular and numerous,— 



Apple Maggot. (Trypeta pomonella). 



b. Puncturing the Fruit : 



1. Puncturing the fruit and distorting it, a 4-humped beetle, — 



Apple Curculio. (Anthonomus quadrigibbus). 



2. Purplish spots about the circular scales, — 



San Jose scale. (Aspidiotus perniciosus). 



c. Eating holes in the Fruit : 



1. Large light-yellow or apple-green caterpillars with a narrow cream- 



colored stripe along middle of the back, — 

 Green-fruit Worms. (Xylina sp.,). 



2. Beetle, yellowish, hairy, h inch long, — 



Bumble-flower -beetle. (Euphoria inda). Fig. 88. 



Winter Conditions of some of the Apple Insects. 

 A. Attached to trunk, branches, and twigs : 



1. White cocoons | to | inch long, under loose bark, or burlap, during fall and winter, — 



Codling Moth. (Carpocapsa pomonella). *■ 



2. Bracelets of varnished eggs around twigs in fall and winter, — 



Tent Caterpillar. (Clisiocampa Americana). Fig. 77 (c). 



3. Clusters of cylindrical eggs on branches and twigs in winter, — 



Fall Cankerworni. (Anisopteryx pometaria). 



4. Clusters of round, ribbed eggs, — 



Cutivorms. 



5. Small, oval, shining, black eggs, usually clustered in axils of buds, in crevices, or 



under bark of upper branches and twigs, in winter, — 

 Apple Aphis. (Aphis mali). 



6. Minute pistol-shaped cases on bark in winter, — 

 Pistol-Case- Bearer. (Coleophora malivorella). 



7. Minute cigar-shaped case^ on bark in winter, — 

 Cigar-Case-Bearer. (Coleophora Fletcherella). 



8. Clusters of glistening oval cases on twigs in winter, — 

 Resplendent -Case- Bearer. (Aspidisca splen- 



doriferella). 



9. Minute silken cocoons at axils of buds, and in 

 crevices of bark, — 



Bud Moth. (Tmetocera ocellana). 

 10. Black, crumpled leaves folded together and fast- 

 ened to the branches during winter — half-grown 



caterpillais in tortuous tubes within,— 

 Fig. 89. Leaf - crunipler : Winter r /• ^ j /m ■ • t • ii \ -c- on 



rases covered with withered leaves. Leaf CriimpUr. (Phycis nidlginella), *lg. «». 



