Insects Injurious to tJie Apple. 



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Treatment 



can on]}' be of very doubtful benefit, as the larva' are ilifticult to 

 get at, but it is said that a sticky dressing smeared up the trunks 

 in May easily chet-ks the egress of tlie moths, and prevents further 

 egg-laying, 



Hkfkeicxces. 



(1| Wood. F. (). 'Natural Histon- of Jiritisli Moths,' vol. I., p. 18. 1>1. 5, 



tig. f) (1S72). 

 (2) Biirkin-. WiUiuiii. ' Tlie Larva- of Lritish PjuttfrHies and Jlotlis,' vol. II., 



pp. 12S-1-29. I'l. xxix., fi.c;, 1 (1887). 

 (;!| Tlhi:h(ihT . ]•'. ]'. Iteport on Economic Zoology for year ending April 1st, 



1!»U7, p. '20 (1907). 



THE LAPPET MOTH. 



(LiiS'ioarjiijiii qiicrcijdt'lii. Linn.) 



This is another handsome moth wliicli now and again is sent 

 by orchardists, owing to its large and strange caterpillars devouring 

 such quantities of foliage. Fortunately, it is not veiy common and 

 certainly cannot lie looked upon as a pest. The riuaint and active 

 pupie in the cocoons 

 are also frequently sent. 

 Xnmbers have lieeu 

 brought me )jy hedge- 

 trimmers wlio liave 

 noticed them mo\'ing, 

 and taken tliem for 

 mice, tlie mouse-coloured 

 cocoon ha\'ing led to this 

 mistake. The ravenous 

 larva? destroy the leaA'es 

 of apple and plum in 

 orchards and gardens, 

 often stripping whole 

 shoots and bouglis. 



Miss (Jrmerod refers 

 to it (1), but I know of 

 no other record of it as 

 causing annoyance. It 



occurs fairly commonly over the I\lidlands, eastern, western and 

 southern cijunties of England. 



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