INSECTS INJURIOUS TO THE CRANBERRY. 117 



laid its egg within ; but there is no resemblance whatever 

 between this insect and the curculio, except that they both 

 destroy fruit ; and there are no facts to prove that the pa- 

 rent insect punctures the berry. 



The millers have no instruments, to my knowledge, 

 with which they could pierce the skin of a cranberry. 



One gentleman has raised " waspish " flies from these 

 worms. So have I, after keeping the cocoons over winter ; 

 but they were ichneumons of two different species, para- 

 sites that had destroyed the worms, and were, therefore, 

 our friends instead of enemies. 



I hope to rear the moth by another spring, and if I do, 

 will report to the Association. I watched closely to de- 

 tect the moth in depositing its egg, but did not succeed. 



In the absence of all facts in regard to the moth, the 

 most natural theory seems to be that the egg is laid by 

 the moth upon the berry just after it sets, and the egg 

 hatching, the young worm burrows into the fruit. 



The apple moth belongs to this family, and deposits its 

 egg upon the apple in the blossom end, the egg hatches, 

 and the worm eats its way into the fruit. I hope, in 

 time, to learn the facts. During the first half of August, 

 the wormy berries examined will have, in nine cases out 

 of ten, the hole close to the stem. After the worms get 

 larger, the hole will more frequently be on the side. 



I found that by putting the berries under water, the 

 worms would come out in a few hours, and that twenty- 

 four hours would destroy them. I have tried twelve 

 hours, and found that to be enough to kill most of them, 

 although two or three had their holes stopped so tightly 

 that the water did not reach them. It has been remarked 

 by a friend that, where a bog can be flowed, the water is 

 usually kept on long enough in spring to prevent these 

 insects doing great injury ; but as some are giving up the 

 practice of late flowing, it may be found advantageous to 

 flow some time between the 10th and 25th of August, 



