CAPE COD CRANBERRY INSECTS 



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varying with their size. Most of the piilj) is eaten in all exeept the first 

 (fig. 38). The entrance to the first two or three is closed 1 y a white silken 

 curtain (fig. 39). After the first berry, the worm is indifferent about the 

 location of its entrance. It often goes from one berry directly into another at 

 their point of contact (fig. 40). The berries turn red prematurely soon after 



Cranberry Fruit Worm. 

 Fig. 38. Cranberries cut open, with worms at work. 



they are attacked, this being the first sign of the work of this insect. They 

 then gradually dry and shrivel and may cling to the vine as husks till the 

 next year (fig. 41). 



When the worms mature late many are gathered with the berries and some- 

 times do much harm among the stored fruit and in shipments, working some 



