162 OWLET-MOTHS. 
of other cut-worms are only too frequent visitors to our 
gardens, and are never slow in devouring the foliage of 
the strawberry and other low-growing plants. They are 
always very destructive in nurseries, and not seldom enter 
the greenhouses, where they can cause great havoc amongst 
tender plants. 
The use ot poisoned baits against cut-worms has already 
been given; it can, of course, be employed against all kinds, 
including the climbing ones. One of the most effective rem- 
edies against the latter is to fasten strips of tin around the 
tree, cut in sucha way as to form, when fastened to the trunk, 
a sort of inverted tunnel. Many worms can be collected 
after dark by jarring the trees over sheets spread on the 
ground. The writer uses with very good results a large in- 
verted umbrella, the inside of whichis lined with some material 
like that used in the Turkish or bath-towels; this absorbent 
material is soaked with kerosene, and all insects that drop 
in the umbrella must come in contact with the oil and are 
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Fig. 161.—Mamestra picta Harr. From Div. of Entomology, Dep. of Agriculture. 
doomed to die. In this manner large numbers of various 
kinds of insects can be beaten from the trees into the inverted 
umbrella and then destroyed. If very many trees have 
to be protected against the ravages of these and allied in- 
