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The Apple Red Bugs 



Go into your orchard when the young 

 leaves are about an inch long and if you 

 find the leaves dotted on the upper side 

 with tiny red spots — not the larger rea- 

 dish blisters of the blister mite, but 

 small and very numerous — you had 

 better give the red bug its place in your 

 spraying campaign or your cull barrel 

 wall be filled with apples that are knotted. 

 The offender is a bright red insect, 

 small enough that it might well escape 

 obseiwation particularly since it has a 

 habit of dodging to the opposite side of 

 the branch when disturbed. When ma- 

 ture, in June or .July, the insect is about 

 a quarter of an inch long and very 

 active. The adults are winged and Hy 

 readily when alarmed. 



The spots on the leaves are feeding 

 punctures and the insects also feed upon 

 the fruit as soon as it is set. Each feed- 

 ing puncture on an apple is responsible 

 for a dimple at harvest time, and so 

 many punctures are made that where 

 very many red bugs are present the loss 

 is a serious one. At harvest time the 

 injury closely resembles that of the cur- 

 culio. The russeted spot at the bottom of 

 the dimple, however, is usually smaller 

 and circular rather than crescent- 

 shaped. Cutting down through the dim- 

 ple we find below the russetted spot a 

 straight, greenish channel that runs 

 toward the core for a little ways then 

 stops abruptly. 



Fortunately we do not have to apply 

 an extra spray for the red bug. While 

 they are rather hard to kill, a thorough 

 application of a tobacco solution when 

 the blossom buds are showing pink, fol- 

 lowed by a similar application just 

 after the petals fall, will ordinarily keep 

 them well under control. The solutions 

 most successfully used are "Black Leaf 

 40" at the rate of one pint in 100 gal- 

 lons of spray mixture or "Black Leaf" 

 at the rate of one gallon in 6.5 gallons 

 of spray mixture. When diluted with 

 water only, any tobacco solution will 

 work better if 2 or 3 pounds of any 

 cheap soap is added to each .50 gallons 

 to act as a spreader and sticker, but 

 never add soap to a mixture containing 

 lime sulfur. 



Any of the nictotine or tobacco 

 products may be added to the usual scab 

 spray and to the codling moth spray, 

 making an extra application unneces- 

 sary. In fact if we make of each of 

 these applications what Professor Sears 

 calls a ".3 in 1" spi'ay and apply them 

 properly, we form a deadly "barrage" 

 through which few insects or diseases 

 can pass. The combination in either 

 case will be about as follows: IJ gal. 

 commercial lime sulfur, 3 to 5 pounds 

 arsenate of lead paste, b pint Black Leaf 

 40 or 3 quarts Black Leaf, water to 

 make 50 gallons. 



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