﻿THE 
  FRUIT-TREE 
  LEAF-ROLLER. 
  93 
  

  

  in 
  Bulletin 
  No. 
  9 
  of 
  the 
  Missouri 
  State 
  Fruit 
  Experiment 
  Station, 
  

   page 
  22 
  (1903), 
  states 
  that 
  it 
  was 
  very 
  destructive 
  in 
  1901. 
  In 
  Bul- 
  

   letins 
  Nos. 
  94, 
  pages 
  9-11, 
  and 
  114, 
  page 
  7, 
  of 
  the 
  Colorado 
  Experi- 
  

   ment 
  Station, 
  Gillette 
  again 
  discusses 
  this 
  species. 
  The 
  most 
  com- 
  

   plete 
  account 
  is 
  by 
  Stedman 
  in 
  Bulletin 
  No. 
  71, 
  Missouri 
  Agricultural 
  

   Experiment 
  Station. 
  In 
  the 
  last 
  edition 
  (1909) 
  of 
  "Insects 
  of 
  New 
  

   Jersey," 
  by 
  Smith, 
  it 
  is 
  included 
  and 
  mentioned 
  as 
  a 
  very 
  general 
  

   feeder 
  throughout 
  the 
  State. 
  An 
  article 
  by 
  Herrick 
  appeared 
  in 
  the 
  

   Rural 
  New 
  Yorker, 
  March 
  2, 
  1912, 
  page 
  263, 
  in 
  which 
  it 
  was 
  discussed 
  

   as 
  a 
  "new 
  pest 
  of 
  the 
  apple 
  in 
  New 
  York." 
  The 
  same 
  writer, 
  in 
  

   Bulletin 
  311 
  of 
  the 
  Cornell 
  University 
  Agricultural 
  Experiment 
  Sta- 
  

   tion, 
  gives 
  a 
  full 
  account 
  of 
  the 
  species, 
  as 
  based 
  on 
  its 
  occurrence 
  

   in 
  New 
  York 
  State. 
  

  

  The 
  above 
  includes 
  all 
  the 
  important 
  articles 
  on 
  this 
  insect, 
  so 
  

   far 
  as 
  the 
  writer 
  has 
  been 
  able 
  to 
  determine. 
  

  

  DISTRIBUTION. 
  

  

  The 
  fruit-tree 
  leaf-roller 
  is 
  generally 
  distributed 
  throughout 
  the 
  

   United 
  States. 
  Stedman, 
  in 
  Bulletin 
  No. 
  71 
  of 
  the 
  Missouri 
  Experi- 
  

   ment 
  Station, 
  page 
  7, 
  states 
  that 
  "this 
  insect 
  is 
  found 
  in 
  damaging 
  

   numbers 
  practically 
  all 
  over 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  from 
  Maine 
  to 
  the 
  

   Gulf 
  and 
  westward 
  to 
  the 
  Pacific 
  coast 
  and 
  up 
  as 
  far 
  as 
  Oregon." 
  

   Packard, 
  in 
  1870, 
  gave 
  its 
  distribution 
  as 
  " 
  Maine 
  to 
  Oregon 
  and 
  

   Texas 
  and 
  Missouri." 
  Holland 
  gives 
  its 
  range 
  as 
  " 
  Atlantic 
  to 
  

   Pacific." 
  So 
  far 
  as 
  the 
  writer 
  has 
  been 
  able 
  to 
  determine 
  from 
  litera- 
  

   ture 
  on 
  hand, 
  the 
  species 
  has 
  been 
  definitely 
  recorded 
  from 
  New 
  

   York, 
  New 
  Jersey, 
  Georgia, 
  Missouri, 
  Texas, 
  Colorado, 
  and 
  California. 
  

   The 
  writer 
  reports 
  it 
  in 
  New 
  Mexico 
  from 
  Espanola, 
  Santa 
  Fe, 
  and 
  

   Taos. 
  It 
  is 
  also 
  reported 
  from 
  Riverside, 
  N. 
  Mex. 
  In 
  Colorado 
  it 
  

   is 
  recorded 
  from 
  Canon 
  City, 
  Vineland, 
  Avondale, 
  Cortez, 
  Olathe, 
  

   Fort 
  Collins, 
  Brewster, 
  Penrose, 
  and 
  Garden 
  Park. 
  The 
  writer 
  has 
  

   been 
  unable 
  to 
  get 
  a 
  list 
  of 
  specific 
  localities 
  for 
  other 
  States. 
  

  

  Although 
  widely 
  distributed 
  throughout 
  the 
  United 
  States, 
  it- 
  

   ranks 
  as 
  a 
  pest 
  at 
  the 
  present 
  time 
  in 
  only 
  a 
  few 
  localities 
  in 
  Colorado, 
  

   New 
  Mexico, 
  and 
  New 
  York, 
  where 
  conditions 
  seem 
  to 
  have 
  been 
  

   favorable, 
  for 
  some 
  reason 
  or 
  other, 
  for 
  it 
  to 
  appear 
  in 
  enormous 
  

   numbers. 
  

  

  FOOD 
  PLANTS. 
  

  

  The 
  insect 
  is 
  a 
  very 
  general 
  feeder 
  and 
  consequently 
  has 
  been 
  

   reported 
  on 
  a 
  large 
  number 
  of 
  plants. 
  It 
  appears 
  at 
  times 
  in 
  injuri- 
  

   ous 
  numbers 
  on 
  apple, 
  pear, 
  plum, 
  cherry, 
  apricot, 
  quince, 
  peach, 
  

   rose, 
  currant, 
  raspberry, 
  and 
  gooseberry. 
  It 
  has 
  also 
  been 
  recorded 
  

   feeding 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  on 
  black 
  walnut, 
  horse-chestnut, 
  soft 
  maple, 
  

   hickory, 
  oak, 
  elm, 
  wild 
  cherry, 
  ash, 
  honey 
  locust, 
  box-elder, 
  sassafras, 
  

  

  