INSECTS INJURIOUS TO THE APPLE AND PEAR 621 



FIG. 476. Apple leaf with cigar case-bearers at work natural size. (After 

 Hammar, U. S. Dept. Agr.) 



Control. Spraying with Paris green or arsenate of lead just 

 before the leaf buds open and again as soon as the foliage is out, 

 will destroy the little caterpillars. 



The Bud Moth * 



This is a European species which was first noted in this country 

 in 1841, and has since spread throughout the Northern and Middle 

 States east of the Rocky Mountains and to Oregon and Idaho. 

 The larvae feed on all of the common deciduous fruit trees, and 

 blackberry, but are most commonly injurious to apple. The 

 adult moth is a dark ash gray with broad yellowish bands across 

 the fore-wings, which expand about five-eighths inch. The 

 full-grown caterpillar is one-half inch long, of a light chestnut- 



* Tmetocera ocellana Schiff. Family Tortricidoe. See M. V. Slingerland , 

 Bulletin 107,.Cornell Univ. Agr. Exp. Sta.; W. E.Britton, 9th Report, State 

 Entomologist of Connecticut, p. 353. 



