BLUEBERRY INSECTS IN MAINE. 2/7 



Both in field and laboratory, at least the adult occasionally 

 succumbs to a fungus Sporotrichum globuliferum Speg. which 

 was kindly determined by Dr. Roland Thaxter of Harvard Uni- 

 versity. 



i;CONOMIC BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



1914. Cooley, Robert Allen. Journal of Economic Entomol- 

 ogy. April 1914, V. 7: 193-194. 



1914. Cooley, Robert Allen. Montana Experiment Station 

 Bui. 98, p. 127. 



A Fruit Caterpillar Epip^otia (?) sp. 



DISTRIBUTION AND HOST PLANTS. 



The blueberry maggot excepted, the insect most commonly 

 found in the fruit is a little lepidopterous larva, the adult of 

 which the author has not yet succeeded in rearing. He has 

 swept quite commonly on the blueberry bushes in late June and 

 early July a little moth which seems to correspond to our speci- 

 men of Epinotia fasciolana Clemens. Although no conclusive 

 data are at hand to establish his opinion, the writer believes that 

 this is the species in question since it is of approximately the 

 right size and no other little moth is cominon on the bushes at 

 the time when the eggs are being deposited. The life history of 

 this species is apparently unknown, but a member of the same 

 genus has 'been reared from the fruit of the apple {E. pyricolana 

 Murtf. U. S. Ent. Bui. 80, p. 46). 



The structure of the larva found in the blueberry agrees very 

 closely with the careful figures of the larva of E. pyricolana 

 published by Mr. E. Dwight Sanderson in the Canadian Ento- 

 mologist for 1903, V. 35 : 1 58-166. 



This insect was rather abundant in 19 13 but was very exten- 

 sively parasitized, which so reduced its numbers that it was 

 quite rare in 1914 and had not appreciably reestablished itself 

 in 1915. During the past summer the writer has collected ma- 

 terial from which he hopes to succeed in obtaining adults and 

 thus definitely determining the species. He has bred the larva 

 from the berries of Vaccinium pennsylvanicum, V. canadense, 

 and V. vacillans. It is generally distributed through the state 

 so far as the records of this Experiment Station show. 



