Insects, etc., Injurions to the Pe 



?ar. 



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my garden at Wye, and ([uite destroyed tlie foliage oT two yijung 



(-'o\'s ( (range i'ippins. The attaek seems to lie well known to 



gardeners in manv parts of the country, bnt does not seem lo affect 



pdaiitations to any great extent. 



Stainton (2) says: "In the neighliourhood of London it is 



excessi\-ely aljundant, and from the profusion of tlie mines of tla; 



larva', the hawthorn hedges will in August assume ipuite a lirownish 



tinge." It is also nieirtioned by Curtis {■'>) and by Westwood (4) and 



earlier by Ivnight ( Horti- 

 cultural T r a n s a c t i o n s ) , 



whose trees were so injured 



that he at one time resolved 



to remove them. In 1775 



Goeze (o) gave a descrip- 

 tion of what is evidently 



this species mining the 



leaves of apple and pear 



trees in Germany. 



It is also recorded ir(mi 



XortliumljerLand, Durham^ 



Lancashire, I'orkshire, 



(Jlieshire, W a r w i c k s h i r e, 



Xorfolk, Suffolk, Essex, 



H e r e f r d , G 1 o u c ester, 



Dorset and Wilts (1 ). 



In a copy of the Cottage 



Car.lener for May 1849 ( ti ), 



I find a reference to an 

 insect tfiat is evidently 

 '". si-itrlhi,, "Every gar- 

 dener," it sa)'s, " must ha\'e 

 observed the leaves of his 

 pear trees, especially those 

 i.if the Chaumon telle, 



blotched with dark brown spots in the autumn. AVe had a standard 

 tree of this variety that annually was thus injured, whilst a S\van's 

 Ewfr and Easter Berramot close by were comparative! v untouched. 

 The brown blotches were caused by tlie caterpillars of a very small 

 moth called the Pear Tree Blister Moth {Tinn/ i-InvlrUa)." The 

 fio-ure is that of (' :i('ltrll(i, but the colour is "iven on the fore wings 

 as being orange with a silvery spot on the outer edge and a mingling 

 of black, lilac and purple on the inner angle; an orange feathery 



