AMERICAN HOME GARDEN. 



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The bud worm is a small greenish worm with a - 128 - 

 dark head, found just after the trees start to grow, 

 rolled in the very tip of the young shoot, which it 

 eats entirely away ; and later in the season, the 

 same worm, or one resembling it, is found rolled 

 into the rose or grape-vine leaf. He is an exceed- 

 ingly active, mischievous-looking fellow, watching 

 keenly for an intruder, and dodging quickly into 

 his retreat when you approach him. They are not very nu- 

 merous. I have supposed them to proceed from eggs which 

 are found deposited singly or in small numbers in the perfo- 

 rated bark of the young shoot close to the buds, though the 

 Loxotenia is said to deposit her eggs upon the bark. 



Remedy : catch and crush him ; also gather the eggs. 



CANKER WORM AND PARENT MOTHS. 



Fig. 123. 



c^^ 

 a 



a. Larva. 



6. Anisopteryx Vernata (Male). 

 c. " " (Female). 



The male moth is of a pale ash color, with darker spots or 

 shadings. The female is dark ash -colored above and gray be- 

 neath ; the latter can not fly, having mere winglets. 



The CANKER WORM is a dusky-brown or ash-colored worm, 

 ten footed, and about an inch long, very destructive to apple, 

 elm, and other trees. The moths leave the ground in very 

 early spring, and a few may get out in the fall. They seek 

 the trees in March, or at the first opening of spring, the fe- 

 male crawling up and laying her eggs in the crotches and 

 branches. These hatch in the latter end of May, and the 

 worms spread over the tree and ravage it, sweeping an orchard 

 like fire where they are very numerous. 



Remedy : banding the tree carefully with Dennis's patent 

 leaden oil trough, or any substitute for it which you can de- 



