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Fig. 2. Work of Tip Worm. 



a. Cranberry vine— tip gone completely; h. vine showing appearance of infested tip; 

 c. Loose-strife infested witli tip worm ; (/. tlie same, showing flower buds struggling out; 

 e. tipped vines, with forming fruit buds at axils of leaf. (After Smith.) 



The other insects have not been suflSciently studied to report upon 

 them at this time. 



THE VINE WORM. 



Bliopohota vacciniana, Pack. 



This insect, known as the vine worm, fire worm or blackliead, was 

 abundant on nearly every bog visited last summer, which had not 

 been reflowed, or thoroughly treated with some insecticide. 



Fig. 3. Vine Worm Moth. (After Riley.) 



