NOTES OF OBSERVATIONS 



OF 



INJURIOUS INSECTS 



COMMON CROP PESTS 



1900. 



APPLE. 



Pith. Moth. Laverna atra, Haw. ; L. hellereUa, Dup. 



Laverna atra. — 1 and 2, moth, natural size and magnified ; 3, chrysalis in tunnelled 

 shoot, magnified ; 4, chrysalis in bud. 



During the past season the presence of Pith Moth caterpillars was 

 reported as much more injurious than in any previous year. In 1889 

 enough observation was sent to me to show its presence in the country, 

 in one locaHty near London ; in 1898, observations were sent from the 

 same locahty of tbe effects of the attack being noticeable ; and from 

 Southport, Lancashire, and from New Cross, on the edge of Surrey 

 and Kent, I had information of what was, in the first case, certainly 

 presence of this Laverna atra, and in the second, apparently so, as 

 injurious to clusters of Apple blossom buds by tunnelling of the stem 

 just beneath them. But in both instances the damage was only 



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