328 PESTS OF ORCHARD AND SMALL FRUITS 
on the short spines on the sides of their bodies. The adult is a delicate 
pale-green moth. 
Hellebore is the only poison that is safe to use on fruit of this kind. 
Fic. 509. — Work of Climbing Cutworms. At left, larva of Peridroma margari- 
tosa. Original. 
Climbing Cutworms (Voctuide) 
The expanding buds of fruit trees, especially in the case of newly 
set stock, sometimes are eaten out and destroyed, no worms being in 
Fic. 510.— Adult of Cutworm, Peridroma margaritosa. 
Original. 
evidence when the 
trees are looked 
over, although the 
trouble continues. 
This is the charac- 
teristic work of cer- 
tain cutworms, 
which, in the lack 
of other food to 
their liking, climb 
the trees and de- 
