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Insect Pests. 



THE RASPBERRY MOTH. 



(Lii miiroriid rultnUn. Bjerk.) 



The larv;c of tliis small iiiotli frequently cause mucli havoc in 

 raspberry plantations, being most destructive to the canes. Many 

 crardeus and plantations are said to be quite free from this pest, but 

 frequently a few may lie found if careful search is made, and these 

 may, under favourable conditions, increase rapidly so that in a year 

 or two a plantation may lie seriously threatened. Many patches of 

 raspberries are annually attacked, and in some years the crop has 

 been entirely lost. 



The small caterpillars of this moth are usually called the liasp- 

 iierry Stenr-ljud Caterpillar or Red Easpberry (^Jrub. These larvje 

 feed on the pith inside the terminal shoots, which 

 flag and then die away; it will also lie noticed that 

 the base of the buds has been eaten away to such 

 an extent that neither foliage nor blossom appears, 

 the shoots dying gradually. In most cases a dis- 

 tinct liole may lie seen at the bases of the buds. 



So far as I know all varieties of raspberries are 

 attacked, and tliey have been found on the native 

 Ijlackljerry ; very probably therefore they will attack 

 the cultivated blacklierry and loganberry. This 

 raspberry pest occurs in Ivent, Worcestershire, 

 CUoucestershire, Warwickshire, Cambridgeshire and 

 Buckingliamshire. I have also seen it in Surrey. 

 There are no records of its danuige in Herefo'd- 

 shire, but probably it exists there in small numbers. 



The first and best account of this moth was given by Professor 

 Westwood (1). To this nothing of importance has since lieen added, 

 except by f >r. Chapman (2). 



Synonymous names for this species are ■. — Tinni rorficlla, 

 Linnaais; Tliu'a i-iihidli(, Bjerkander ; ^Ihirifa run'r//,/, Fabricius ; 

 Jluci/ii miillijiiriirldlii, Duponchel ; .1. fi.^elici'dlu ^ Sodnffskv ; Gli/- 

 lihipfci'ij.!' riirlclld, Stainton. 



{F. K. 

 rrG. 274.— 7;.\si']n';KKY 



(XntiiTiil size.) 



LiFK-lIisTunv .vNii H.vr.iT.s. 



The Easplierry Moth is \ inch long, the wing expanse loss 

 than h inch; some specimens are very small. The" general colour 

 is brown, the front wings have yellow spots, of which two on 

 the inner l)order are the largest, these meet with those of the 



