CHAPTER IV 



ORCHARD PESTS 



A change of scene — The innumerable tenants of trees — Apple 

 pests — Wood Leopard Moth — Fruit Bark Beetle — Woolly 

 Aphis — Mussel Scale — Winter Moths — Vapourer Moths — 

 Lackey Moth — Cockchafers — Apple Blossom Weevil — Apple 

 Sucker — Wasps — Earwigs — Codlin Moth — Apple Sawfly — 

 Pith Moth — Plum, Pear and Cherry Pests — Pear Midge — 

 Slugworms — Figure of Eight Moth — Bush Fruits — Rasp- 

 berry Moth — Shoot and Fruit Moth — Raspberry Weevil — 

 Currant Scale — Currant Sawfly — Currant Gall Mite — 

 Magpie Moth — Currant Clearwing — Nut Weevil — Straw- 

 berries — Green Rose Chafer — Stem Eelworm. 



AFTER the arduous "ground " work of the preced- 

 ing chapters, which may have been somewhat 

 fatiguing, it will be a good thing now to raise our eyes, 

 straighten our backs and look aloft at the trees. 



This chapter takes us around the orchard and fruit- 

 garden, which, however well kept they may be, have 

 many insect troubles to cope with. 



A tree is one of the glories of nature, and people who 

 come for the first time from an arid or cold climate to a 

 land of rich verdure like England in June, invariably 

 use the same remark, " Oh, the trees ! " And in bygone 

 times, when the earth was warmer, and tropical splendour 

 more widely spread, our ancestors must have revelled 

 in the fruit on the trees long before they thought of hunt- 

 ing game. " Yes," says the evolutionist, with a twinkle, 

 " we were certainly arboreal in the first instance. Witness 

 the initial tendency of a baby to bunch itself up and 



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