510 INSECT PESTS OF FARM, GARDEN AND ORCHARD 



spray schedule .so as to accomplish this as nearly as possible, he 

 will secure satisfactory control of the curculio. 



Arsenate of lead must be applied with care to the peach as 

 the foliage is tender. It is frequently applied with self- 

 boiled lime-sulphur and if this is not used lime should be 

 substituted 



The Oriental Peach Moth or Fruit Moth * 



Another recent importation from the Orient which deserves 

 mention on account of its almost unlimited possibilities for evil 



FIG. 438. Jarring trees over a curculio catcher. (After Slingerland.) 



is the so-called Oriental Fruit-moth or Peach-moth. It is closely 

 related to the codling-moth but is more difficult to control as 

 it has four to six broods each year and it feeds on foliage, in fruit 

 and in the twigs, its feeding habits being such that effective 

 control by means of spraying would be impossible. 



This insect has been noticed in the District of Columbia and 

 has since been found in Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, 



* Laspeyresia moelsta Busk. r Family Tortricidoe. See Philip Garman, 

 Bulletins 209 and 223, Md. Agr. Expt. Station, and Quaintance and Wood, 

 Jour. Agr. Research, Vol. VII, No. 8, and Wood and Selkregg, ibid, Vol. 

 XIII, No. 1. 



