(2) Protected by webs covering the leaves — Fall Web-Worm (Hy- 

 phantria textor). 



(3) Not protected by webs, greenish lice with suckling mouths — Plum- 

 Leaf Aphis (Aphis prunifolii). 



(b) Solitary, 



(1) Measuring worms, feeding in the day time and in Spring — 

 Canker Worms — (Alsophila pometaria). 



(2) Fat, greasy caterpillars, feeding at night in spring — Cutworms. 



(3) Hairy caterpillars with long black plumes over head and tail — 

 Tussock IVIoth (Hemerocampa leucostigma) . 



()4 Large buzzing beetle — June Bug (Lachnosterna fusca). 



(5) Large apple-green caterpillar, with a tail horn, and with seven broad 

 oblique white stripes along each side — Plum-Tree Sphinx (Sphinx drupi- 

 ferarum). 



Other larvae are occasionally found feeding on the leaves of plum: 

 The Viceroy (Limenitis disippus), Polyphemus and Cecropia. 



The Fruit — 



(a) Puncturing and making a crescent-shaped slit in the skin of the young 

 fruit, which soon drops — Plum Curculio — (Conotrachelus nenuphar). 



(b) Making a round hole in the young fruit — Plum Gouger (Coccotorus 

 scutellaris) . 



(c) Eating holes in the ripe fruit — Bumble Flower-Beetle (Euphoria inda). 



(d) Eating holes in the half-ripe fruit — Rose Chafer (Macrodactylus sub- 

 spincsus) . 



INSECTS INJURIOUS TO THE CHERRY. 

 The Root— 



((a Thick whitish grub, with brown head and legs, feeding in decaying roots. 

 Beetles large with powerful mandibles — Stag Beetle (Lucanus dama). 



(b) Large white fleshy 'grub, with reddish head, feeding in old roots — Rough 

 Osmoderma (Osmoderma scabra). 



