REMEDIES AND PREVENTIVE MEASURES. 

 WINTER WORK. 



The preventive measures that can be taken during' winter time vary 

 according to the species to be dealt with. For No. 1, or the Gal- 

 eruca, which is confined to the Elms, no treatment of the trees them- 

 selves or of the boxes; in fact, no treatment that can well be given in 

 the winter season will avail much in destroying the insect in its hiber- 

 nating retreats, because the parent beetle finds shelter in all sorts of 

 out-of-the-way places. It flies long distances, especially upon awaken- 

 ing from its winter torpor, so that it may be attracted to the trees from 

 regions into which it is practically impossible to effectually pursue and 

 detect it. 



With No. 2, the Thyridopteryx, on the contrary, effective work can 

 be done during the winter time or when the trees are bare. The bags 

 which contain the hibernating eggs, and which are very easily detected, 

 then may be gathered or pruned and burned. This work may be so 

 easily done that there is no excuse for the increase of this species. 

 Where intelligent action is possible the bags were better collected and 

 heaped together in some open inclosure away from trees, rather than 

 burned. By this means most of the parasites will in time escape, while 

 the young Bag-worms, which will in time hatch and which have feeble 

 traveling power, must needs perish from inability to reach proper food. 



Much can also be done with No. 3, the Orgyia, because it also hiber- 

 nates in the egg state upon the female cocoons upon the trunks and in 

 all sorts of recesses. 



In regard to No. 4, the Hyphantria, which is the species we are more 

 particularly dealing with, something also may be done in the winter 

 time by systematic clearing away of the cocoons from the sheltered 

 places in which they may be found. These hibernating retreats are, 

 however, so numerous about our houses and our grounds, that complete 

 destruction of all cocoons becomes an impossibility. 



O^E SIMPLE PREVENTIVE KEMEDV FOB ALL. 



It so happens, fortunately, that there is one thoroughly simple, cheap 

 and efficacious remedy applicable to all lour of these tree depredators. 

 From the natural history facts already given it is clear that they all 

 begin their work very much at the same season or as soon as the leaves 

 are fairly developed, and arsenical mixtures properly sprayed on the 

 trees about the middle of May and repeated once or twice a; intervals 



