128 MAINE STATE COLLEGE 



THE EYE-SPOTTED BUD-MOTH. 



Tmetocera ocellana, (Schiff.). 



Pig- 7. 



The following letter was received last May : 



Rockland, Me., May 20, 1891. 

 Entomologist Experiment Station. 



Sir : — I send you some blackberry buds that are infested with 

 maggots. I have about one-fourth of an acre and I think three- 

 fourths of the buds on the piece contain one or more of these 

 maggots. I noticed them for the first time last year, when I 

 found a few of them. When the buds are small they eat into the 

 heart of them and spoil them. The eggs are deposited in the 

 buds early in the spring or in the fall. I have found some of 

 them on rose bushes and also on a peach tree standing near the 

 blackberries. My family and I have killed a great many of them 

 but still they will injure the bushes very much. 

 Yours respectfully. 



John N. Ingraham. 



The specimens sent by Mr. Ingraham were put into a breeding 

 cage to transform and proved to be the Eye-spotted Bud-moth. 

 This species was considered and figured in the Annual Report 

 of the Experiment Station, 1888, p. 169 and in the Maine Report 

 of Agriculture, 1888 p. 133 as a pest upon apple trees. We 

 find no record of this species attacking blackberries, therefore 

 the habit is new. The observations of Mr. Ingraham would indi- 

 cate that this species also feeds upon the peach tree and roses. 

 As there are several bud-moths that infest our fruit trees and 

 shrubs it is not safe to conclude that this species did the injury 

 on the peach trees and roses, though they were near the black- 

 berries, until the insect has been reared from them. It is not 

 improbable that the Eye-spotted Bud-moth feeds upon peaches 

 and roses, as it is known to feed upon plums and cherries, plants 

 belonging to the same family. 



