454 Killing Yellow Jackets. 
The Peach WW’crm.—aAs already stated, the larva of the peach 
moth, which early in the spring bores into the twigs, is some- 
times found later in the season in the flesh of the peach. Hence 
the importance of saving the fruit by proper winter treatment of 
the hibernating worms. 
ANTS AND YELLOW JACKETS. 
These insects are often of serious trouble during fruit dry- 
ing. Ants are most effectually disposed of by slightly opening 
their holes in the ground by thrusting down a crowbar and pour- 
ing in a couple of ounces of carbon bisulphide and closing again 
with earth. Yellow jackets also nest in the ground in old squir- 
rel or gopher holes, and they too can be suffocated with carbon 
bisulphide or by pouring in gasoline or kerosene and firing it. 
Hornets which nest in trees are troublesome, but are much less 
numerous than the cave-dwelling species. 
To destroy yellow jackets by trapping and poison is also 
feasible. W. F. Moyer, of Napa, proceeds in this way:— 
Make a thin fruit syrup by mashing the boiling ripe fruit, strain it 
and add a little sugar. Place the syrup dishes on the drying ground 
where the “jackets” are thickest. When the top of the syrup is cov- 
ered with drowned and drowning “jackets,” scoop them out with the 
hand, and crush them with the foot. They won’t sting unless you 
pinch them. As the syrup evaporates fll up the dishes with water. Ifa 
day or two should elapse when no fruit is cut, be sure the traps are well 
cared for, as they will swarm around them thicker than ever, especially if 
the weather is hot. For dishes to place the syrup in. cut kerosene cans 
so as to make two cans, each about six and one-half inches deep. 
Poisoning to carry destruction to the young brood is also 
practicable. Dr. J. H. Miller, of San Leandro, saved his fruit 
in this way :— 
I bought half a dozen beef livers, five pounds of arsenious acid and 
several pounds of baling wire. Cutting the liver into pieces as large as 
a man’s fist, I put them into a hot solution of arsenious acid, and, bend- 
ing the wire into a hook at each end, I suspended the pieces from the 
lower limbs of trees all around my drying-ground. The fruit was soon 
deserted, and the little insects busily working at the fragrant liver. The 
insects carried pieces of the liver to their nests, and besides causing the 
death of those that had been destroying my fruit, the next generation 
of yellow jackets was also destroyed, and so complete was the destruc- 
tion that there were not enough of the little pests in that neighborhood 
the following year to require a repetition of the treatment. There is no 
risk in so using the poison, for the yellow jackets will not return to the 
fruit, and bees will not go near the meat. 
The Diabrotica.—-A light green beetle with twelve spots on 
his back (Diabrotica soror), is sometimes very injurious to early 
fruit, by eating into it when ripe. The insect also eats leaves 
and blossoms. As the insect attacks the fruit just as it is ready 
to pick, it is impossible to apply any disagreeable or poisonous 
