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LEPIDOPTBKA (MOTHS). 



Remedies. — One can easily detect tlie hole in the bud, whicli 

 is about the eighth to the sixth of an inch across, where the 

 larva has entered. By pruning the infested shoots back until 



Fig. 80. — Black Currant Stems damaged by Labv^ of Currant Clearwikg. 



no signs of a tunnel are left, and by liurning the prunings, this 

 somewhat local pest would soon be cleared out of an infested 

 garden. 



The Garden Swift-moth (Hepialus lupulinus), etc. 



The family Hepialidse or Swift-moths includes two distinctly 

 injurious species — namely, the Garden Swift and the Ghost-moth 

 I^H. humuli). The former is very destructive in its larval stage 

 to garden produce, and the latter to grass and hops. The larvae 

 of the Hepialidee live underground upon the roots of plants, hut 

 sometimes they burrow into the root itself and up into the 

 crown of the plant. They are dirtj'-white in colour, and have 

 large brown heads and scattered bristle-like hairs over the body. 

 The garden swift-moth lays her eggs during the latter part of 

 May and in June, upon the ground, amongst vegetation. The 

 larvee feed at once off the rootage just beneath the soil, and 



