WORMS BORING INTO THE FRUIT 



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Fig. 505. — Work of the Gooseberry Fruit-worm. Slightly enlarged. Original. 



Hand picking is often the simplest means of control. If necessary, 

 Paris green or arsenate of lead may be applied in order to stop a bad 

 outbreak, but if the fruit is of 

 good size, it will not be safe to 

 use it. Plowing or cleaning up 

 rubbish in the fall will help to re- 

 duce injury the following season. 



Fig. 506. — Adult of the Gooseberry 

 Fruit-worm. Slightly enlarged. Orig- 

 inal. 



The Raspberry Span-worm 



(Synchlora cerata Fab.) 

 The fruit of raspberries some- 

 times is eaten by grayish or 

 yellowish span-worms, three fourths of an inch long when mature. 



They are peculiar in their habit 

 of decorating themselves with 

 bits of flowers or leaves stuck 



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Fig. 507. — Adult of the Raspberry Span- 

 worm. Slightly enlarged. Original. 



Fig. 508.— The Raspberry Span- 

 worm. Original. 



