276 AMERICAN HOME GARDEN. 



SMALLER GOOSEBERRY WORM. 



LARVA OF CECIDOMYA GRO8SUI.ARI.E, OR GOOSEBERRY MIDGE. 



The midge is scarcely one tenth of an inch in length, pale 

 yellow, with wings that appear glassy. 



The eggs are deposited in June in the young berries, which 

 color prematurely and drop off, the young worms, which are 

 yellow and of an oval form, occupying the rotten inside'. 



Remedy : gather all premature and dropped fruit, and boil 

 or burn it. 



GRAPE WORMS. 



Besides the bud worm, mentioned p. 268 as infesting the 

 grape-vine, there are other worms, more rare, but perhaps not 

 less injurious, which trouble it. ' They are the larvae of various 

 kinds of Philampelus or Sphinx moth, and either eat the leaves 

 or cut the unripe fruit from the branches. The vines should 

 be watched, and the depredators caught and destroyed. The 

 grape slug, larva of Selandria (Blennocampa) vitis, is similar 

 to the cherry and rose slugs, and may be destroyed by the same 

 means, as may also the minute brown or greenish larva of Hal- 

 tica chalybea, or grape-vine jumper, which sometimes feeds 

 upon the young blossoms, and thus destroys the crop. 



The vine borer, Trochilium polistiformis, which is peculiar- 

 ly destructive to grape-vines at the South, is so similar in its 

 appearance, habits, and transformations through all its stages 

 to the peach borer, TrocJiilium exitiosum, that it may perhaps 

 be doubted if there is a really specific difference between- them. 

 All remedies for the one are available against the other. 



PEACH WORM, WITH ITS CHRYSALIS AND PARENT FLIES. 



The peach fly, which in its season may be seen busy about 

 the trees, is a small wasp-like fly, of lively habit, rather more 

 than half an inch long. The wings of the male are transpa- 

 rent, those of the female a bright steel blue ; the bodies of both 

 are of this color, the female having a cross belt of orange. Its 

 eggs are deposited during the latter part of summer in the 



