SPOTTED FIREWORM 



Nests made by worms : 



Fig. G. Of cranberry uprights. 



Fig. H. On loosestrife. 



Fig. I. On marsh St. John's-wort. 



yellow-headed fireworm (fig. 20) and sews even more uprights into its nests 

 (fig. G), but rarely browns a bog. 



Distrihution and Food Plants 



This species has been found in Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, 



Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Canada. It has been recorded as a cranberry 



feeder in Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, and Wisconsinl^. It also attacks 



chain fern, sensitive fern, marsh shield fern, common brake, flowering fern, saw 



IS iHardenberg's "Oblique-banded roller (Archips species)" was pretty certainly this 

 species (See Wis. Agr. Expt. Sta. Bui. 159:15, 1908). 



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