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366 FRUIT INSECTS 



week of June and transform to slender dark brown pupae, 

 about i inch in length, within the folded leaf (Fig. 322). 

 In about ten days the moths emerge (Fig. 323). The 

 general color of the moth varies from wood-brown to russet ; 

 the fore wings are crossed obliquely by a broad, dark brown 

 band and have a large spot of the same color near the tip. 

 The thin, oval, light lemon-yellow eggs are laid in clusters of 

 more than a hundred, overlapping each other like shingles on 

 ^ a roof (Fig. 324). 



Just where the 

 moth places her 

 eggs in the field 

 has not been de- 

 termined. The 

 ^^^ eggs hatch in about 

 ^ ten days. In New 



»■ York there are three 



broods a year, cat- 

 i erpillars developing 



Fig. 326. — How the caterpillars destroy the leaves in May, July and 



which they roll. December. 



Means of control. 



The measures suggested for use against the strawberry leaf- 

 roller on page 363 would doubtless be effective against this species. 



Reference 

 Cornell Agr. Exp. Sta. Bull. 190, pp. 145-149. 1901. 



The Black-marked Strawberry Slug 

 Empria maculata Norton 



In the Northern states east of the Rocky Mountains and in 

 Canada the foliage of the strawberry is occasionally attacked 

 by the greenish larvae of a small dark colored sawfly. Out- 



