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Canada, with the exception of Southern Ontario, there is but one brood 

 a year, with a very small percentage transforming to make a partial 

 second generation, but further south there are two or even three broods. 

 Parasites, Etc. — Trichogramma pretiosa, Trombidium on eggs; 

 Pinipla annulipes, Macrocentrus delicatus, Ascogaster carpocapsa, 

 Itoplectis marginatus, Hypostena variabilis and Tachinophyto on larvae; 



Pig. 138. — Bud moth. 



I, Adult moth; 2, larva; 3, pupa (dorsal view); 4, pupa 

 (ventral view). {After DuPorie.) 



some beetles (Tenebroides corticalis) two species of ants, Lasius niger 

 and Solenopsis molesta, woodpeckers and chickadees. (Consult Bull. 

 142, Cornell Ag. Exp. St.; Bull. 41, 80, 97, 115, 189, 252, n. s., Div. 

 Ent., U. S. Dep. Ag.; Bull. 187, Ont. Dep. Agric.) 



Control. — Spray with arsenical just after the blossoms fall, and again 

 in 3 weeks; destroy fallen fruit; band trees about July ist; fumigate 

 fruit-houses with sulphur to kill the moth (Fig. 136 and 137). 



