BULLETIN No. 210. 



SPRUCE BUD\VORAI.=^ 



[Tortrix funiiferana Clemens.) 



O. A. JOHAXNSEX. 



For the past two or three years the spruce bud^vorm has 

 proved the most serious pest of the spruces in Maine. It ap- 

 pears to be a native of this country for it is here that the species 

 was first described in 1865 and there are accounts of the rav- 

 ages of an insect beheved to be this as early as 1807. It is at 

 present widely distributed over eastern Canada, northern Eng- 

 land, New York. Vancouver, and Afanitoba. The fact that the 

 insect chiefly attacks the buds and new shoots makes its pres- 

 ence in timber lands a serious problem. 



HISTORY AXD DISTRIBUTION. 



The earliest account we have of the appearance of what is 

 believed to be this insect, is given by Professor Packard in the 

 Fifth Report of the U. S. Entomological commission, p. 835, 

 which reads as follows : 



"From Rev. Mr. Kellogg we learned the following interesting facts 

 regarding the appearance of the similar, most probably the same species 

 of caterpillar, even upon the same farm that was ravaged in 1878, early 

 in this century. According to Capt. James Sinnett and Mr. John Jor- 

 dan, of Harpswell, the spruces of Harpswell and Orr's Islands were 

 destroyed in 1807. Captain Bishop, whose son made the statement to 

 Mr. Kellogg, cut down the dead spruces on these islands and worked 



*Papers from the ;Maine Agricultural EKperimcnt Station : Ento- 

 mology Xo. 63. 



