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SMALLER GOOSEBERRY WORM. 



LAEVA OF OECIDOMTA GEOSSXTLAEIvE, OR G006EBEEEY MIDGE. 



The midge is scarcely one tenth of an inch in length, pale 

 yellow, with wings that appear glassy. 



The eggs aie deposited in June in the young berries, which 

 color prematui'ely and drop off, the young worms, which are 

 yellow and of an oval fonn, occupying the rotten inside. 



Remedy : gather all premature and dropped fruit, and boil 

 or bm-n it. 



GRAPE WORMS. 



Besides the bud worm, mentioned p. 268 as infesting the 

 grape-vine, there are other worms, more rare, but perhaps not 

 less injm-ious, which trouble it. They ai-e the larvee of various 

 kinds of Philampelus or Sphinx moth, and either eat the leaves 

 or cut the um'ipe fruit from the branches. The vines should 

 be watched, and the depredators caught and destroyed. The 

 grape slug, larva of Selandria (Blennocampa) vitis, is similar 

 to the cherry and rose slugs, and may he destroyed by the same 

 means, as may also the minute brown or gi'eenish larva of Hal- 

 tica chalybea, or grape-vine jumper, which sometimes feeds 

 upon the young blossoms, and thus destro_ys the cro^). 



The vine borer, Trocldlium poUstifonnis, which is peculiar- 

 ly destructive to grape-vines at the South, is so similar in its 

 appearance, habits, and transformations through all its stages 

 to the peach borer, Trochilium exitiosum, that it may perhaps 

 be doubted if there is a really specific difference between them. 

 All remedies for the one are available against the other. 



PEACH WORM, WITH ITS CHRYSALIS AND PARENT FLIES. 



The peach fly, which in its season may be seen busy about 

 the trees, is a small wasp-like fly, of lively habit, rather more 

 than half an inch long. The wings of the male are transpa- 

 rent, those of the female a bright steel blue ; the bodies of both 

 arc of this color, the female having a cross belt of orange. Its 

 eggs are deposited during the latter part of summer in the 



